Spring Break Tales-Wednesday

Today I did a fair amount of reading. I finished Betsy and the Great World and started Betsy's Wedding as well as Fifties Chix: Travel to Tomorrow. And then I started on my great adventure.

First you should know that this summer is going to be my summer of independence and reading in which I will finish at least half of the unread bought books on my shelf and learn lots of skills to being a more independent person. And today I baked a cake.

Now normally this would not be a very tough feat. Still new and exciting, but not tough. But these were not normal circumstances. Let me start from the beginning here. I wanted to bake something today, whether it be dog biscuits for my dog or a cake. So I took out my Strawberry Shortcake cookbook from when I was really little that I have always planned on making every recipe from (maybe I'll make them this summer!) and found a recipe for Angel Food Cake's vanilla cake and vanilla buttercream frosting. After looking all over our crazy kitchen for baking powder, a flour sifter, toothpicks, and an electric mixer, I FINALLY found everything I needed (except for a few things like powdered sugr, milk, and 2 sticks of butter which I later got at the store). Then I stirred and sifted and mixed and poured until finally the cake was ready. While it was cooling I colored the frosting and decided to make it teal. It turned out sea foam green instead, which is alright with me. You know how sometimes people paint a picture or write a narrative about their adventures, such as I would about how I went to the beach. Well, instead I chose to bake a cake about it. The vanilla was the sand and the frosting was the sea foam. A visual representation of my fun day at the beach. And okay, maybe the frosting is a bit wack, but altogether it was pretty good. Here's some photos:

And then I went to dance and came back home to eat more cake. YAY!

Spring Break Tales-Tuesday

Yesterday I spent much of the day reading. And reading. And reading. Until I was almost done with Betsy and the Great World.

But then I went to the beach. The water was actually not that cold, and it just made your entire body feel weird, really numb, yet not. Just warm, almost. I know it's strange, but that was how it was. I just kept my turning my back towards the waves and my front facing the shore and falling backwards into oncoming waves.

I washed out some clothes aways down the beach, because the water near our campsite was full of sand crabs. We were literally on top of a giant breeding colony.

And then I had my genius idea. I figured I could make a pretty CC logo that intertwines at the bottom curve of the first C and the top curve of the second C on the bottom (if placed vertically) using seashells and rocks because I noticed a couple of prime seashells on the beach and figured there were probably more if I looked. Well, while I was searching for some big sandcrabs, I found that certain pocks of the shallows had natural sand made of different kinds of sediment from shells and things. And there were lots of shells in there. It wasn't the right time of day for sand dollars, but I found a fragment of one as well as abalone, clam, and mussel shells, sea glass, and some fossilized coral with fossilized animals inside. Below are some pictures of the logo which I will have outlined. If you're confused, just post your question in the comments.