Courtney's Cauldron

After shopping today, Heather made the executive decision to stop by a Coldstone (her logic being she had a $20 gift card and she wanted ice cream.) Ashley and Heather both ordered strange, topping and caramel filled ice creams. I went with something a little more simple: a mint chocolate chip shake.

During the drive home, Heather made me hold her ice cream (mainly so that she could drive). I put my half-filled smoothie on top of the handle bar in front of the dash, and it stood there nicely. That is, until she took a sharp turn. I watched helplessly as my gorgeous shake took a suicidal leap off the dash, performed a perfect 360 front flip, slid between Heather’s knees, and rolled to a tragic stop on the floor. Unable to stop it without throwing Heather’s lidless ice cream everywhere, I “squeaked” in distress. Multiple times.

However, I am happy to report that no mint chocolaty goodness was spilled during the performance of this dessert.

~Courtney

Today I went with my friend to a public picnic in the park. I was thinking it would a bunch of families with hotdogs and hamburgers. As it turned out, it was actually a bunch of Asian people with different Asian cuisines. Most of the food that was put on my plate I couldn’t pronounce. There were three different types of rice balls, sweet pork stuff, spicy vegetable stuff, a strange bright yellow vegetable, and hot tamales among other things.

Compared to most “white” people, I’d say I’m pretty good with chopsticks. That is until you expect me to pick up rice or eat soup with them… luckily I wasn’t the only one stabbing the food with one stick.

For the most part, I’d say it was a fun and edifying experience. Next time I’m taking a spoon though.

~Courtney