Visiting a ruin is an enjoyable experience, you get to see a piece of history that somebody has built and then been knocked down by someone else. It kind of reminds me of a ruin that Donald and I visited in Kassel, Germany in 1997. The Herkules monument is built on what looks like a ruined castle but it was actually built to look like an old ruined castle.
Fun if you've got the money and don't know what to build....
Wife asks: "What would you like to build today dear?
Architect husband replies: "Hmmm, I know, lets build a castle".
Wife again: "Sounds a bit ordinary to me, didn't you build one last year?".
Architect husband suggests: "How about we build a ruined castle".
Husband and Wife together : "Yeaaah".
Making your own ruin, making your own history and designing it to look like a ruin, now that sounds like a plan. Kind of what we did yesterday.....finally.
Ethan calls it our "gingerbread ruin".
It started out ok. Gingerbread baked beautifully, was thick enough to stand up once cooled. Made the royal icing and the boys decorated, Sam and Ethan a roof piece each and Toby decorated the front path so carefully and beautifully.
My roof line however was our gingerbread houses downfall. The roof angle was cut a little too steep, which was why the roof wouldn't stick and set and then it cracked and caved in. And maybe the weight of the icing and lollies on top didn't help either.
The demolition crew didn't take long to finish the job off either. What with Toby jumping up and down and up and down after inhaling all of the sugar goodies, (one for the house, one for me, one for the house, two for me....) it's no wonder the gingerbread house became a ruin, and what a beautiful ruin it was. Fun to make and break and eat.
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Sounds like your day got better at least - what a great house. Sorry that it broke apart!!! What a fun memory though!
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