When you work at sea, you live at sea. Anyone who signs up to live this work life will eventually miss a big event in their lives…a family wedding, a child’s first day at school or an anniversary(the first two out of three happened on this trip). When a birthday arrives and land, along with your loved ones are not where in sight, the highlight of the day tends to be THE CAKE.
Thank you Cheryl Zurbrick, once again. Not only is Cheryl still blogging every day about our current trip, but she created the fabulous cake decorations for our birthday boy, Ben Jokinen, our Senior Marine Technician. Cheryl asked what Ben liked and I told her, “…camping, fishing, his doggies and his fiancee, of course.” After a good bit of planning and sketching and raiding of the pantry, Cheryl got to work.
Chocolate trees with coconut-green-dyed leaves, almond paste puppies, laughy taffy bugs, a graham cracker tent with candle poles, heath bar crunch rocks, blue frosting for a lake, a little more almond paste for a fish frying over an open fire and even jelly belly beans turned into beer cans, makes quite the cake to make someone happy on their special day. Here is the proof….
Sunset on San Fransisco Bay was not a bad way to end the day. Happy Birthday Ben!
