10/27/2012

Saturday was long bike ride day as normal. I did about 60km. I got to study for a bit when I got home. Then I had a cake to make. A 3 layer ice cream and cookie cake. It was quite the feat. I made the cookie and cake layers simultaneously but the cookie layer cooked much faster. The idea is a cookie crust so i tried to bake a cookie that went around the edge and across the bottom of the pan. But.... the walls sank down as it baked so the cookie only goes up halfway. The cake layer had much more trouble. An hour and a half later it was finally baked and needed to be frozen and frosted. The ice cream layer was easy as pie and slipped right into the cookie. Perfect sizing by Maddie! The cake is still awaiting assembly and decoration because I went to a Halloween party tonight. Halloween is not big here so my American support group had a party. It was fun I dressed up as a pirate with an eye patch, bandana, Flowy skirt, and bottle of rum. Real rum because it was BYO but I ended up having such a good night that I never drank any of it. I put it on the counter mid conversation and forgot about it until I left with a full bottle of rum. There were some good and bad costumes. The host made a pretty believable Abraham Lincoln. There was a girl who did an artistic version of start night, and a Dobby(from Harry potter) my friend Angela was a fabulous miss piggy. Other than that the costumes were pretty average. I particularity loved the candy corn. I didn't realize that I missed until tonight. The party didn't end till 1:30 so I'm spending the night with Angela who lives close to the party and heading home at a more reasonable hour.