Birthday Bash Dorm Style

Hello All,
Today is Viana's 22nd birthday and so I planned a little party...dorm style!

On our door

Viana and I were craving donuts one day, and we decided that for her birthday, we would have a donut cake because it is a true feat of bravery to try and cook in the dorm oven.  I wasn't quite sure how I was going to pull it off, but after some scheming I was finally able to settle on a design and it actually turned out to be the easiest cake ever!  I would highly suggest it as it is easy to assemble and any points it lacks in traditional beauty it makes up for by simple being made of possibly the yummiest food ever created.

 The candles had to be upside down because technically we aren't allowed to have them 

in the dorm, so I figured we wouldn't get into too much trouble this way :)

Viana's (boy)friend JT was able to come up today so he, Robert, Hillary, Viana, and I all gathered in our kitchen to sing, eat "cake" , and open gifts.  Robert and his parents were so kind and gave Viana a little goody bag of a mug, travel cup, hot cocoa, and other what-nots.  I gave Viana a container of Fage yogurt and a little bar of dark chocolate both decorated with markers and construction paper.  All in all we had a great time, and even though none of us had much time to celebrate because of homework, it was a nice break from the steady hum of interrogative pronouns, conditional probability, the colonization of Brazil, Fra Angelico's Descent from the Cross, and things like that that keep repeating themselves in my head.

Also, it is looking as though I will be able to come home this next weekend because of fall break.  I hope to leave here Thursday afternoon, stay the weekend, and then drive back Sunday afternoon.  Yahoooo!!!
Well, back to the steady hummmm..........

-Kate