First up was baking a pie. Like all things in our household pie making didn't go quite as planned. I hadn't planned on baking a pie but Sylas K saw Reese's Peanut Butter Cup pie on a restaurant menu and wanted a piece. It was $4.99 a slice! Nope, not happening. So my genius self said, "We can make that pie ourselves for cheaper."
I was wrong! We found a great recipe and ran to the store to get the necessary ingredients — $22 later we had all we needed but I still had to make the dang pie! Sylas K actually helped me and it didn't take to long to make. He was pretty impatient letting it chill for three hours before we could finally try a slice.
Once the chill time passed we sliced the pie and sat down to enjoy it. We each took a bite... and another... and neither one of us wanted to admit it. We didn't like the pie!!!! It just wasn't good. For as many calories as each slice had you would have thought it would have had more flavor. It was just so so. It wasn't horrible but it sure didn't taste like what I thought a $22 homemade pie would taste like.
One down, nine to go! Hopefully pie number two is better!
Today I got my first postcard via PostCrossing! I'm pretty psyched about this whole postcard adventure. How it works is you sign up for a free account. You can send five postcards to people to start. The website provides you with the addresses. My first five postcards went to Russia, Poland, China, Uganda and the U.S. Once one of your postcards is received someone else sends you a postcard.
It has been such a fun conversation starter with Sylas. We talk about each of the countries our postcards are going to and tonight we talked about where our first postcard came from. I think it would be a really fun activity for teacher's to do with their students. It's a great way to learn about the world.
The goal is to get 40 postcards from 40 different countries. My first one came from the U.S. so I'm not counting it in my total but it was awesome to get.
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