Today is EPA Day on Mount St Cookie

Well, last week's EPA day was a total wash (ha ha). It didn't get done, there were cookies to bake, food to stock up on for hungry nations, geographic boundaries to redefine, and cultural experiences to learn about (thanks to the Smurfs).

Today's EPA day never felt so good! Over the past three days the United Nations has been attempting to scale Mount St. Cookie which has been occupying the kitchen at the United Nations headquarters. America participated in a cookie exchange that required 10 dozen cookies. The 6 batches of Snickerdoodles required were the foundation of the mountain. On top of that were sugar cookies/Christmas cookies from last week Saturday - 5 dozen of those which were nearly finished upon the birth of the Snickerdoodles (actually, that would be the foundation wouldn't it). Now there are a variety of cookies America has no idea what they are...other than the Russian Tea Cakes. Oh my goodness!

Well, last night America, Fiji, and Korea met up with some of the young people from Church and went midnight bowling. Fiji and America had their own lane which meant that in the span of 3 hours, 8 games were played - America only made it 74 frames (high score was 149 and low score was 63...only because America didn't finish the last game...that would have been the lowest score). Korea played with other allies from church and seemed to have a good time.

Three AM rolled around and we were all back in bed. Fiji woke up to educate the world on first aid measures while Korea and America slept a bit longer and cleaned the house. America has no idea how Korea felt about that but America dragged the feet and the task of cleaning up the environment, washing the clothes and even the idea of anything like that. But America would definitely confirm that the clean headquarters, particularly the kitchen and Mount St. Cookie is now of a manageable portion and it doesn't look like the bag of flour exploded on the floor. The only casualty scaling Mount St Cookie: one wine glass. Can't have everything can we?

Today, America is thankful for Canada. A Canadian friend had been talking about the snow they have had for weeks and weeks now (northern Ontario from America's understanding) and they have finally shared the joy with us...until tomorrow at least (if we're lucky).