The true story of our trip to Croatia!

Many of you might already have read Shirin’s or Alex’ blog post about our trip to Croatia and our unexpected encounter with Fiona at a car stop. However, it grieves me to say that both of these posts have been nothing but lies. Both were too shy to face the ugly truth. Today, I want to tell you the real story of our trip.

Although my friends claim that it was all a coincidence, the true story begins last semester. Back then, Shirin, Lisa, Alex and I were faced with a major problem – passing our English classes. That’s why we came up with a plan, both desperate and genius. We invited Fiona to a trip to Croatia. We met up really early last Saturday and started our adventure with great music (Lady Gaga, Pink, etc.) and Fiona on board. The car ride itself was hilarious and we soon realized that our plan to improve our English grade was working. During the following days we enjoyed the beach, good food and the sun. All was nice and we had a fun time but when we returned to Graz, Alex and Shirin were embarrassed by our teacher’s-pet-trip and quickly came up with a different, very unlikely story which they shamelessly spread via Blogger.

Now you all know the truth and I am pretty sure our plan worked out and we will get through our English classes without any kind of trouble. And for all those of you who doubt my side of the story, the true one, here are some pictures to prove how much fun we had.

Sky Night - Game of Thrones

Many of you have probably heard of "Game of Thrones" before. It is one of the most successful TV series nowadays and is based of the books of the series "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin. The book series consists of so far five books (two more are supposed to follow - God knows when) and each book equals one season of the TV series. Only a short while ago the 3rd season has been aired in the States and next week it will also start in Austria, on Sky. To promote this Sky launched a "Game of Thrones - Sky Night". The "Sky Night" took place in the KIZ Royal Cinema and Sky in cooperation with HBO showed the first two Episodes of the new season. In English of course. So Emina and I decided to go there, as we are both really into "Game of Throne". Not only was the movie absolutely free, they had also decorated the cinema, there was a promotion guy dressed as a monk and they had quizzes and prizes to win. Some people even came in costumes. Believe it or not, one guy wore an armour. All in all, I have to say I had a blast and the preview made me really curious about the 3rd season. :)

Cookie Monster

My brother is currently in his final year of school. Last week he had his written final exams and he was nervous especially about his maths exam. So as a lucky charm I decided to make him some cupcakes. But I wanted to make him some special ones and as he likes the Cookie Monster, I choose to try out a Cookie Monster cupcake recipe. The result was great and my brother loved them, so here is the recipe should you want to try them out yourself. :)
First make some basic muffins. After letting them cool down make the butter cream. Butter cream is basically nothing but butter and loads of sugar. Then add blue food coloring to get the nice fur color of the Cookie Monster. With a piping bag pipe on the blue butter cream on the muffins.

For the eyes you normally use white marshmallows but as I was not able to get some I used "Haribo Frösche". I cut of their heads to get them into a nice eye shape. With molten chocolate fix chocolate drops on them. Put the finished eyes on the cupcakes.

The last step is to break regular chocolate chip cookies into half and stick them on the cupcakes to make the cupcakes look like the Cookie Monster is about to eat a cookie. Aaaaaand voila, the Cookie Monster cupcakes are ready to be eaten. Enjoy. :D