Well There Goes Ten Years of my Life

By eating what I did on Saturday I definitely took off three years of my life. I and four of my friends wanted to make a giant ice cream sandwich. There was only one problem, none of us are very good cooks. You may think you don’t need skills to do this and your right, but you do need knowledge of what to do. We started off by making the two cookies that would go on top and on the bottom of our ice cream sandwich. This seems pretty easy especially since the dough was pre made. We had no idea how long to put it in the oven for so we pretty much did it by sight. If the top of the cookies looked nice and crispy and normal then we would take them out. This is where the knowledge would have been useful. We thought that if the top of a cookie looked done then the whole thing looked like that, but in reality it is very different. We took the cookies out (they were about the size of a small pizza). After we let them cool for a while we tried to pick one up and put it on a plate. That is where it went wrong. The cookie was just a bunch of melted cookie dough. We tried to glue it together with some icing, this didn’t work very well but it did taste good. After we had done that we added about three inches of ice cream, them even more icing. This is where we all realized that this was a really bad idea. The next cookie went on pretty easy, but we still added icing to it just for the fun of it. We tried to freeze it again but the ice cream had melted too fast and it was all falling apart, so we had to eat it on the spot. The ice cream sandwich from hell was amazing. It felt so good to eat but it made me feel so bad. I could feel the ice cream and cookie and icing all in my stomach for hours after I ate it. I probably took off ten years of my life eating that but it was definitely worth it.

A Great Game

Like I said in a previous post I do not watch very many sports on T.V. for multiple reasons. This past week was an exception. It was the American league play offs were on. That is a part of the MLB. One of my favorite teams was in it, the Texas Rangers. They were predicted to win all the whole play off.

Game 1

The first game was close the whole time; the final score was 2-3. Many people consider this as a great game because it was two of the best pitchers in the league and it was basically a pitching battle. I don’t consider this a good game because I like seeing players smash the ball and scoring runs, not two pitchers getting strike outs.       

Game 2

The score of the second game looks like it is a blowout but in reality the game went into extra innings. It was three to three up until the bottom of the eleventh when Cruz, the Ranger’s right fielder hit a grand slam to end the game seven to three.

Game 3

                 The third game was won by the Cardinals to make the series 2-1. Doug Fister was the pitcher for Detroit during the third game, and he did excellent he made it very hard for Texas to get hits. Texas ended up scoring 2 runs, but Detroit was able to score five to win the game. 

Game 4

                The fourth game was won by the Texas Rangers, which made this amazing series 3-1 Texas on top. This game was won by Cruz yet again, it was three to three in the ninth inning, one score was made in order for Texas to make a lead, and then Cruz hits a three run home run which ends up as the game winning hit.

Game 5

                The fifth game was won by the Detroit Tigers; this was a very necessary win. If they had lost they would have been out for good. This game started off tough for the Tigers, Texas scored in the first inning. Then Detroit turned it around to end up winning 7-5. I do have to say, Texas did have a lot of bad luck during this game including a ground ball that hit the base and bounced over the third base men’s head, generating a run.

Game 6

                The sixth game ended up being the final game of this 2011 ALCS series. Texas wins this game and wins the championship. Now they are going to the World Series which ends up being against the Cardinals. Nelson Cruz and Michael Young both went for the big hits to score 15 runs; this game was the only real blow out in the series. Detroit only managed to score 5 runs.

By winning four out of the five games the Texas Rangers were able to make it to the World Series 2011. They didn’t only win this; this is also the second year in a row that the Rangers made it to the World Series. Last year they lost to the Giants, but I have a feeling they will win this year.

A Short Trip

Last week my school gave us a week off, we call it fall break. My family and I took this opportunity to go back to the US. My older sister is a senior this year so her and my mom went to look at colleges with in the US. My younger sister went to stay with other people in my family. My father and I went on a golf trip with my grandfather in Louisiana. 

Day 1

The golf trip went very well, the first day was a little slow because we had to drive there and it is a very boring drive because it is all farm land. The good thing was that it was only a two hour drive. When we got to the resort that we were going to play golf during that day. The resort was basically a giant casino, we got lost and it was hard to find a place to lunch. After we finally were able to eat we went over to the golf club house. When we were checking in a little kid was there and he knocked down all of the golf clubs on display. The first day was rough for me as I watched my dad hit the ball in close to the pin every chance he had, then there was me where I would hit it over the green or too short. By the last few holes I was getting the hang of it even more. I usually play golf a lot, but before this trip I hadn't played in two months so my golf skills were a little rusty. That night we went to this Irish restaurant, and my dad had ordered a plate of broccoli. When the plate came out it was covered in salt water, well I'm not sure about the water. The broccoli was so salty that when I ate one I had to spit it out.

Day 2

On the second day of the trip we had to wake up early to make the tee time, on this day we played somewhere else. This course had houses so my grandfather was worried that he might hit on of them. The round had ended but he hadn't hit one. The course was challenging but I was able to finish with a good score. We ate lunch and my dad was then determined to play another round, I went with him. My grandfather on the other hand took the car back to the hotel to take a nap; he said he was done for the day. At the end of this round I improved my score. Me and my dad were stuck there at the golf course half an hour longer because my grandfather had taken our only car so were forced to wait for him. 

Final Day

On the last day we had to wake up early yet again, but this time we had to drive an hour to the middle of nowhere to play. This last course was probably my favorite, it had hills and open fairways. Open fairways are good because it gave you more room, and less of a chance to lose your ball. The last course we played at was also my favorite course and it was where I made my best score of the trip. I was able to tie with my dad and that is saying something. During this round of golf I also laughed the whole time because there was a bunch of red necks in front of us that had never played golf in their life and the whole time they would just mess around, for me it was like a comedy show. My grandfather and dad didn't like it very much though.