Most Creative

Last Monday was the annual PAck 413 Cake Bake. So, we spent a good part of Sunday baking the cake. Actually, I should say J and B did this. I was mostly off the hook. Except for a bagel run.

Can you guess what it is? B picked the subject and his dad tried to make it come alive.

It is the London Eye, made only from edible items.

At first, we found only pre sliced bagels at the grocery store. Everybody wants pre-sliced, right? Well, not if it is your London Eye base. It came together, grudgingly. The actual ferris wheel part took so much energy that the rest of London suffered. Big Ben (made from the sugar wafers I didn't eat) wasn't glued together. And, the rest of London became individual Hershey Bar blocks. But the Eye was the focus.

J and I made our very slow way to work on Monday morning so as not to jar the masterpiece.

By mid day the linguini and marshmellow pieces were drooping like a wilted flower. By the time we picked the boys up in the evening we were aware of every pothole and road crack from Tulsa to Broken Arrow and were praying for the garlic breadsticks not to break. And, if you know Tulsa, you know that's a lot of crappy roads.

We were praying that the boy wouldn't be too disappointed and were preparing our "You can't win them all" talk or the "Next year, how about we do something not quite so 3 dimensional."

But, with a little last minute surgery from father and son, the London Eye lived to see another day and B won "Most Creative" in the contest. Yay team.

By the by, one of the judges was Wanda from Wanda's Cakes, who did our wedding cake. And, to the surprise of Wanda and all the other parents I basically attacked her and enveloped her into a gigantic hug when I saw her because I loved the cake she made for us so much.