Gingerbread Making Contest

Last night, a bunch of us were hanging out and wondered what we should do for the remainder of the evening. We had already spent the day playing games, watching the Canucks game and stuffing ourselves with 20 cent wings. We decided that we should have a duel... a gingerbread making duel!

We split up into teams of 2, but somehow the teams developed into an all BOYS team versus us GIRLS. How fair is 4 guys vs 2 girls? Anyways, we went to Save-On and set our timers to 5 minutes. We madly raced around the bulk food and baking isle collecting as many ingredients for our houses. The boys kept snooping and looking in our grocery basket, but we kept our cool and tried not to punch them in the face. At one point, a woman asked Nicola and I what we were all doing. She ended up giving us tips about what to buy!

May I just point out that the team of 4 spent $50 on theirs! We, however, spent $26. We really should have set a budget!

Here are the pictures of our masterpieces:

Not your traditional looking gingerbread house. Shawn's mom thought it resembled a Native Sweat Lodge. Creative though!

Yes, those are candles! They lit candles which was a great idea at first, but then their straws (used for holding up the roof) started to melt and smell awful. Not the sharpest bunch.

Not only did they buy candles, but they also bought balloons. They thought they could make it like the UP house... not sure where they thought they could find HELIUM!!!! (FAIL) Ah well, all was not lost. Instead they just blew up the balloons and irritatingly popped them throughout the building process.

Ah yes, the ever familiar boy band shot...sexy!

Ours was more traditional. Nicola did a great job of the structure of our house...

while I worked on the hockey rink in the backyard.

And what is a gingerbread house without a dead, bleeding Santa Clause who fell of the roof after being stabbed? Too much Dexter I think, Nicola!

Everyone had a great time, but left feeling quite sick.

I'm not sure why?!?!?

A dream come true for some.

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