Last night my family competed in a "Iron Chef" competition held on campus. It was my mom, my dad, and me. There were 6 teams picked out of the people that applied to compete. If you don't watch the show, basically we were given a cooking station and allowed to take any ingredients off the large "ingredient table". Then the secret ingredient (shrimp) was brought out at 5:00 p.m. and we had 35 minutes to cook a dish with the shrimp for a panel of 3 judges. We cooked spicy gumbo shrimp with citrus.
It was really fun and exciting while we were cooking. We didn't win, but we got to keep the chef jackets (which I kinda think are cool:) The winning team received $150 to split, free pizzas, and some other stuff. Below are some pictures of the night.
Mark took these. We are talking behind the other girl in front of us. My dad is on the left.
Me, really hot and sweaty from cooking! Messy makeup and gross sweaty hair, but it was so fun!!
These are all pictures of the final dishes from some of the teams.
After the Iron Chef competition, we ate a late dinner and I took Ethan to a Poetry event that my department hosted. It was called Poe-try night, since it was Halloween inspired and Poe (the author) writes a lot of spooky stories.
They had a free coffee bar and snacks. Ethan was a good sport and sat through most of it until it was our turn to read. A lot of people read their poems or spooky stories they had written. Ethan and I read his favorite Halloween book "The Runaway Pumpkin". It has a chorus part that repeats itself 3-4 times throughout the children's book. He has it memorized, so I read the story and he said the chorus part and everytime there was the word pumpkin he would say it really loud and cute. People laughed and kept saying how cute he was. He did a really good job, especially in front of 30-40 people. Below are a couple pictures of the event. 
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