Adventures in Cake decorating

Mom and Arnold came to Clemson last weekend to celebrate my birthday. We had a spendiferous time. Mom took us to the Melting Pot friday night. Arnold and Mom had me laughing so hard that I almost choked on my cheese covered apple. Saturday Vi joined us for lunch at Explorers and Serenity. The only reason to go to Explorers was the spinach dip, which sucked this time, so I doubt I'll ever go back unless I get a strong desire to draw on paper table cloths. Besides some really sad plot points, Serenity was a really good movie. It did justice to the TV series. Even Mom liked it and she had never seen the series. After the movie, mom, arnold, and I went Bowling, at my request. I lost horribly, but both mom and arnold broke 100 the second game, which is good for people with little bowling experience. I still can't decide if I was doing more damage to me or the lane, but I had fun anyway. I also decided to make my own birthday cake. Since I had done a great job on Arnold's monkey pirate cake, I decided that I had to trump it with a better one. I both succeded and failed in this attempt. I decided to take a 3-D cake pan of a bear and turn it into the disney character Stitch. The first cake came out of the pan in a million pieces. The second one came out in one large piece and a bunch of little pieces that should have made up the face. I had to reconstruct the face and after I iced the cake, these pieces slid, creating a cerebral palsy stich. In addition both sets of ears I made were too heavy to be held up by the cake so he looked like a Daddy Warbucks Stitch. But I got it to look pretty good, tasting pretty good was another story. But with a cake like that, taste really isn't the point.