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Friday, March 23, 2012

Happiest Place on Earth! ( a few new pictures)

We (Karl, Laura, Me) had the opportunity to go to Orlando, Florida for a convention. We have NEVER been there before so we decided to go.
We had a wonderful trip.

The weather was 82-84 degrees everyday with sunny blue skies. When we described the trip to my niece, Elise, she said that we took "park hopping" to a whole new level!

I loved the visual aspect of Harry Potter's Wizarding World, as well as the Disney streets and Epcot's various country depictions.

I'm not much into the rides, Karl and Laura did most of them. We did ride Spiderman three times, Harry Potter a couple and Laura rode the Tower of Terror 4 times! I throughly enjoyed the Beauty and the Beast show while they did "Terror" again.
I had to take a picture of this woman in the Norway mural at Epcot, I felt like I could be related to her, it reminds me of pictures of my mom when she was younger!
I was happily surprised to find that the Disney restaurants had gluten free menus, each time I ordered, however, it required a manager to come and enter it, and was labeled clearly so it was handled carefully. I really appreciated the care that was taken. We had to laugh when one of the receipts was tagged "Glutton Allergy". Yes, we should all be free of gluttony. :)
Enough said.
It's always tough to end a great vacation; but there's no place like home.

Monday, February 27, 2012

Birthday cake

I thought I was pretty much done making cakes...but then I had grandkids. On Saturday Rob said, "I'm glad you came out of retirement, Mom".

Maci Jo turned 3 and who could resist?? Especially a Repunzel themed birthday!
So this is what I did.
I decided to do a checkerboard layer cake. This requires a batter seperating device like this. I have done this with aluminum foil, but I found this kit at a garage sale.
You can do this with with 2 layers and just one separation, but there were enough guests coming to the party that I wanted to have enough cake so I went 3 layers.
Happy Birthday Maci!! Grandma loves you!