One goal...

Current mood: gallant


One goal… to go around the world (11 countries) eating culturally unique sweets in a one-day period.

Two people… Rob and I (both of us claim to have authored the idea).

Three bites… taken of fried fish in the United Kingdom before I felt my stomach flipping around and threatening to return the foreign substance. Baby steps, ya know?

Four bodies on a bench… when a non-English speaking woman pointed to our bench and shooed us with her hand to say that she and her family were intending to take over our bench (which we allowed to happen luckily just seconds before her husband, who had grown way too comfortable, began removing the shoes from his stanky, nasty feet).

Five adult beverages… French red wine, hot Japanese sake, German beer, German white wine and Chinese plum wine. I think that was all… drinking around the world will have to be saved for another time when sweets are not already involved.

Six months… the amount of time it may take before we can sample desert from Canada since the only available food (outside of popcorn or chocolate bars) is in Le Cellar and there is an outrageous six-month waiting list for reservations.

Seven dragons… ya had to be there.

Eight hours… the amount of time allotted to accomplish the goal.

Nine million flying bugs… gathered their troops and attacked in Mexico.

Ten short hours… between having the last sweet of the night (rice pudding in Mexico) and waking up the following morning hungry (believe it or not) and preparing a homemade sweet of sorts – buttermilk biscuits with peach preserves.

Eleven countries… in our next venture – to appetizer/snack/hors d'oeuvre around the world. But yeah, I don't know when that'll be.