#322 - Eat yogurt out of a mayonnaise jar in public - DONE!

After receiving this suggestion from 3 different friends on completely separate occasions I decided I should add it to the list. It sounded unusual, but funny and right up my alley! My sister wanted to do this on her recent vacation and actually added more to it. She asked if we could also try gatoraide out of a windex bottle. We are such a silly pair! 

The trip to the grocery store was awkward. I ended up with a jar of mayonnaise, a pint of vanilla yogurt, 1 light blue powerade & a bottle of windex in my basket. Once I got home I washed the windex bottle out over 5 times with soap & hot water but it still had the faint smell of cleaner... 
 
The next morning I set everything up, threw our windex & mayonnaise bottles into a cooler & drove to a local outdoor mall to try it out! Unfortunately there weren't a lot of people there, but we stayed for a bit and had a few very confused onlookers. One gentleman watched me eating my "mayonnaise" curiously for a bit & chuckled before he walked away. Overall it was a success! Even if I did feel incredibly weird eating out of a mayonnaise jar!

#9 - Make a geyser with Mentos & Diet Coke - DONE!

This task was another sister pick. I was expecting this one to be epic, and I may have to try a more elaborate master plan in the future, because I was left slightly disappointed. I guess I was expecting something more like the youtube videos with 100+ bottles of Diet Coke... but I only got 2. With those bottles though, I wanted to see if there was a difference between the 1 liter and 2 liter bottle of Diet Coke. I also learned after the fact that there is a much better "drop" method to the Mentos than shove in as many as you can before the thing explodes, then run!!! So again, there may be a much more elaborate repeat of this.

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That being said it was still cool to watch, and far more impressive in person than these pictures. Oh, and for the scientists our there the 2 liter bottle totally won.

#167 - Learn how to bake a pie - DONE!

I enjoy baking as much as the next person, but for some reason baking a pie has always seemed a very daunting task. But after watching "Pushing Daisies" (a super-fun quirky show that I enjoyed) I decided to put it on the list. Not sure why that show finally convinced me I could do it, but it did. 

When my sister visited my this summer I asked her to pick some things off my list to do together and this was one of her top picks. We searched through some recipes, argued about what type of pie we wanted to make (I voted pumpkin but that was not a proper summer ingredient), and finally settled on apple pie. An american classic! We followed the recipe to the letter, but still ended up with more filling than could fit in the pie... we placed it in the oven and hoped for the best. The 45 minutes could not have gone by any slower, but finally we took it out, let it cool and dug in. It was delicious!!! It even got two thumbs up! From me and my sister at least ;)

This pie was super easy to make, you probably have all the ingredients in your house right now minus the apples. Here's the recipe if you would like to try it yourself, I highly recommend it!