Learn something new everyday. Today, I learned there is a lovely neighborhood park in walking distance from my house...and a fabulous hiking trail just behind that! Today we were finally able to go on a hike---without driving (well, sort of...more on that later). We simply geared up, walked out of our house and to a trail we'd never explored before. Adventure Saturday! Today's hike was 2.2 miles (one way) on a partially old paved road, winding around the back woods of Mililani, down to Kipapa Stream, back up to...Costco in Waipio. Say what? We truly had not planned on arriving on the oustskirts of a farm that is directly across from our local Costco. Hiking truly lands you in the most unexpected places. Along our route we encountered dirt bikers, a small band of pre-teen scooter riders, a couple of farm hands in a truck, a very intimidating junkyard dog, zero other hikers, and a friendly Starbucks Barista. That's right, after our Saturday surprise hiking adventure, we f
...equals disastrous cake. Oh. My. Gawd. I'm just going to stick with baking, the occasional cooking, and reading. I think I'll devote even more time to reading now that it is beyond clear these hands are not creative. I admit, half way through, maybe even less, I gave up on my cake. It was just not happening. And when the instructor boldly announced that "basket weave" is the EASIEST of all the decorating techniques we had learned...I knew I was really just taking the class to eat cake. I don't like to fail and fail I did. Miserably. The non-basket weave basket weave I did on my cake was very much like something a small child would do. Ultimately I went with that small child element and created a circus of a cake with the ever scary clown topper. The colors were not right. The design was not right. The execution of technique was not right. Sigh. Everyone else turned out some really cute stuff though. Enjoy the cake montage.
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