Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Don't Drop it on the Brick

The Raterink family campfires have been few and far between since Brighton was born, but this past weekend we changed that. We rang in our first summer weekend at the cottage with a campfire, and we had giant marshmallows too. Have you seen them? They are seriously at least twice the size of a regular marshmallow. Bright thought they were balls that needed to be hit with his bat off the tee. Here he is eating his first smore.

My dad loves having campfires, and from the pictures you can tell he's glad they're back, but one of those things my dad says is, "Don't drop it on the brick." Marshmallow + brick patio = major mess.

Well, these giant marshmallows + brick patio would indeed = a GIANT mess. Both Jordan and Dan had some issues roasting and/or eating their giant marshmallows. I will leave posting the pics of those two online up to them. Let's watch their blog for those.
We all laughed so hard, and even so there were a couple instances where my dad just couldn't help himself and had to remind us. "Don't Drop it on the Brick." We survived, and although the giant marshmallows do provide some new challenges, they provided extra sugar, extra smiles, extra laughs, and an extra gooey time. And no, we came close, but none of us dropped a giant marshmallow on the brick, but summer just started.

2 comments:

Kim Rubin said...

Mmmm...I love smores and haven't had one in ages. We may have to try to do them over our stove. This too has its dangers--no bricks to worry about--if you remember back to Ridgewood (I decided to eat the marshmellow off the metal fork I'd been roasting it on...)

L. Walcott said...

It's not posible to forget when we thought we were so clever making smores over the gas range and then Kim burned the roof off her mouth. We learned a lot in college didn't we?