And Now I Can Take A Second To Breathe Before I Start The Next One

This morning I took Jason's cake to his parents' house in Roy. I told his mom that I'd have it there by 11 AM so I packed up my car and was on the road around 9:30. Because of seat-leveling issues, I decided that it'd be best to just put the cake in the front seat where I could keep an eye on it... Which also happened to put it in direct sunlight! I drove all the way from my house to I-80 before I decided that there was just NO way I was going to risk having the cake in sunlight for an hour. So I improvised. I had a couple of icing bags wrapped in a dish towel so I decided to make a shade. It was more complicated than I expected, but I was up to the challenge and held the towel in place with both hands while turning the handle to close the window with my foot... The door was open while I did this. I then used two push pins to secure the bottom of the towel to the trim at the bottom of the window. (Yes, I purposely poked holes in the decorative fake leather on the inside of my door. It's an old car, it's probably ok.)

After that I was able to "relax" for most of the rest of the drive. Anyone who has transported a wedding cake- and cared that it made it to its destination intact- knows that there's no real relaxing until you have safely reached the reception site and the cake is in someone else's hands. So in all actuality, I continued on my way with as little worry as one can have when transporting a three-tier, stacked wedding cake 50-ish miles on sometimes winding/mountainous roads in a car with semi-working air conditioning on a warm morning at the end of May... Until I reached the Mountain Green exit.

For those of you who may not have driven through Weber Canyon in the last month or so, let me give you a heads-up: It's under construction again. What was already a winding, two lane canyon road is now a ONE LANE winding bobsled track with concrete barriers on both sides... NOT exactly the best place to be with a wedding cake in the passenger's seat. I swear to you that I breathed maybe six times in the ten-ish minute drive through the canyon. Thankfully, there was a semi pulling two trailers in front of me so I had an extra excuse to be going 40mph. The cake and I both survived the trip with only a massive headache from lack of oxygen. That is, I had the headache... I'm pretty sure the cake was unfazed.

We arrived on time and everyone was thrilled with the cake. :) What a great feeling! The two bottom layers were fake and only Jason and Ashley got to try the top layer, but they both told me how good it tasted as well. Oh, it's so good to have that stress over and done and have everyone happy with the work I put into it. Their reception was great and I got to talk to lots of people I don't see very often.

Here's the best part of the day, though: I figured out what is wrong with Katie's car. ME! All by myself! See, it's been randomly dying for the last couple months. Katie will drive it to, say, the store and everything is fine but when she comes out of the store the car won't start! She has had it towed to the shop more than once and all tests come back that everything is fine... But it's not. You can start the car with jumper cables- similar to the fiasco we had when leaving the condo but without the fiasco part. So when Katie turned off her car to open the trunk so I could get my stuff out and then the car wouldn't start we thought for sure that we were going to have to jump it. I pushed it out of the middle of the road while she steered and we then proceeded to call people who may be able to come help. (Remember that I no longer have jumper cables as mine melted in the fiasco.) That's when I remembered that my car used to do this sort of thing when it had a short in the positive battery cable. So I had Katie open the hood and, sure enough, after I wiggled just the cables- there was no movement of anything on the terminals- we managed to get her car to start. She has a faulty ground! That's it! Hooray! All in all, a successful and happy day.