Saturday, February 16

A Seismic Birthday


In part because of my baking skills, Zack ended up having a geologically themed 26th birthday. He had asked for a chocolate cake, and I had the day off so I volunteered to bake it. During the transfer of cake to presentation platter I had an accident and the cake split in two; instead of trying to frost over the gap I just went with the tragedy. A fault line cake, complete with a house broken in two and a cowboy surveying the gap. We were going to have dinner at the Stone Brewery anyways, so that ended up being part of the geology lesson. Who doesn't love a little plate tectonics? I believe a fault line like this would have been caused by divergent plates; if you look closely you'll also notice the transform fault lines.