This weekend Robin and I worked on our Wedding Cake toppers, opting against the non-traditional male and female characters we created replicas of the Chips Ahoy! © cookie models. Robin purchased FIMO clay, and formed the cookie bodies, chocolate chips and I helped with the eyes and mouths. Robin purchased a doll wedding veil and bow-tie that attached to the cookies as well, this project took about an hour or so and was something we both enjoyed. The results are very satisfactory and I am looking forward to seeing them propped on our custom wedding cake.
The meaning behind the Chocolate Chip cookies is that when Robin and I first met she delivered a batch of them to me at work. At the time she was working in another department and I spent some time working on computer issues this particular department had- after fixing the problems one of Robin’s co-workers wanted to give me cookies as a “Thank-you”. Things progressed between Robin and I and when I asked her to marry me I had her dig out the ring from a batch of Chocolate Chip cookies.
On Sunday the 20th we drove to Sunkhaze Meadows, a National Wildlife Refuge that hosts 10,000 acres of protected habitat. We have never visited Sunkhaze before decided to just drive to one portion and explore a couple of trails, the first trail we walked along was Oak Grove Trail that crosses Birch stream. This area is very picturesque with small streams twisting and turning through pine and deciduous tree covered hills exposing their roots through erosion and at some points flowing over a bed of small boulders. After we took in the scenery we found another trail that’s totals 1 mile, at the end there’s an observatory platform. Despite covering ourselves in bug spray we were still painfully bit by deer flies as we walked the Moose trodden trail although many of the footprints were fresh we did not spot any Moose or any wildlife. The trail brought us through wetlands and part of the forest and then suddenly the forest ends and immediately the habitat changes from a peat-dominated wetland/forest setting to stream side meadow setting. At the brink of these two habitat changes sits the observatory platform that allows you to look throughout the stream side meadow. Surprisingly we were not able to spot any wildlife most likely due to the heat and humidity as well as the time of day, despite that we still had a good time taking in the sights and scents of the refuge, even our Sigg bottles enjoyed the hike.
