Bake Sale Success!

Hello, all!

First of all, we would like to thank everyone at Stony Brook for making our Bike&Build Bake Sale a massive success! In total, we were able to raise about $200 for affordable housing, which in my opinion is fantastic. Thanks to all the students, faculty, non-students (those from U of Alabama), friends, etc for buying baked goods and donating time and/or money. You are all awesome.

At this bake sale we had SIX different kinds of cookies! My amazing sister (The Kitchen Politico) donated more than 200 cookies worth of cookie dough to our cause, and these cookies are legit. Seriously. A friend of ours (It's on Fire!)  donated some baked goods as well. All in all, Annamaria and I pressed some buttons on the oven and put the frozen cookie dough in until they smelled delicious; but we are still worn out from this experience, it was sort of overwhelming.

These are the cookies we had:
Molasses (my Grandma's recipe, and just about the best cookies ever)
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup
Monster w/ and w/o Toffee (crunchy PB, butterscotch and chocolate chips, M&Ms, and oats; Annamaria's favorite)
Oatmeal Currant (one of my favorites)
Chocolate Chip w/ Pecans
Citrus Sizzlers (lime w/ cayenne pepper, another of my favorites)

(I slept on the floor)

And our friend made Chocolate Loaf Cake, Chocolate Pudding Tarts, and Egg Custard Tarts.

Looks good, right? 

More big news - we both got our bikes this week! We were both up before our mail room was open yesterday, and as soon as they opened their doors we went to get our (enormous) boxes of bike. Annamaria put hers together immediately, I don't know where she found the time - mine is still in pieces: 

This means that we will start training for real, whenever we're free. But we will get our 500 miles in and be pumped for all day bike riding this summer!

Also, in a couple days we will be starting a raffle! We aren't sure how many prizes there will be yet, but there will definitely be one top prize of this awesome Doctor Who themed quilt (made by my mother!) and hopefully a Sonic Screwdriver. 

(We'll have a better photo in a few days)

We are still in the process of setting up this fundraiser, and will keep everyone posted on the progress. Hopefully it will be extremely easy and convenient for everyone involved. If you have any Doctor Who friends, let them know! The raffle will be through Rafflecopter, and it will be set up on this blog in a couple days, if everything runs smoothly. (Also, if you're not a Doctor Who fan, you should become one. Because it's awesome.)

So check back in regularly, because our wheels are really getting rolling (ha)! And we would love a ton of involvement from everyone. 

Geronimo!