Name: Cheryl BonciminoLoves: Art in all of its forms
Hates: Uncooked tomatoes, mean people, roadkill
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Sunday, January 07, 2007
Sweet Destruction Today Cheryl has invited the first-ever guest blogger to make a post on her super cool blog. Yep, it's me, Greg, as the guest for the day. Today we will bring you in on the fun we had yesterday bringing the life of our "world's largest" gingerbread Petronas Twin Towers to a sudden and rather shocking end. In previous years, we simply destroyed our Christmas gingerbread houses with a firecracker, or maybe a hammer, or MAYBE a sledge hammer. But those forms of destruction would be far too tame for this masterpiece. For this destruction to be done right, we had to drop them from the roof of our house here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia!What follows is the telling of the story in full color. Enjoy....
Here we are, preparing to move our beloved Towers from the driveway onto the roof of our car port. What we didn't yet know was that our Towers were going to help us by self-dividing upon our attempts to lift.
Greg the Destroyer carries Tower One to the launch pad. We handled our masterpieces with the utmost in love and care....
Cheryl can't resist taking a nibble off of Tower Two while Greg is transporting. Ahh, the taste of four-week old stale cookies and M&M's...
Greg carefully places the base of Tower One onto the launch pad and begins his descent for more Tower...
Note Greg's skillful (yet artful) method of carrying the base of Tower Two to the car port launch pad.
Alfredo the Clean-up Canine pre-licks the driveway to make sure it's ready to receive its new cargo. Note how CLEAN the driveway looks now...
Greg and Destroyer Brooke make some adjustments in the positioning and orientation of Tower One.
Ready for the Countdown... Brooke sheds some final tears while Greg gleams with unbridled joy. 'Tis so much fun to break stuff...
Let the countdown begin. Greg and Brooke moments before the Towers met their date with destiny...
And THIS is what became of our beloved Towers. The video (at the bottom of this post!!) shows how the Towers exploded upon impact. Cookies went EVERYWHERE... Under the bushes, under the car, into the lawn, you get the idea. It's amazing what 30 cases of cookies look like upon collision. We think David Letterman would be proud.
View from Ground Zero. Ashley shot this impressive landscape of cookie shrapnel. Pieces of the Towers remained partially intact in various places...
Ashley brings some of the larger pieces to justice by "helping" them to a more comfortable pulverized state...
Brooke drops additional pieces from the roof as well. This is so much fun...
Ashley and Cheryl toss their cookies... Literally. Is this a picture of cookie joy or what? Note the flying wafers at the top of the frame!!
Greg with his super-duper Caterpillar Cookie Plow. Actually this was a very good way to clean up the crime scene.
A beautiful photo of crumbled Christmas cookie construction. The high resolution version of this is now on our computer desktop as the background. Let us know if you'd like the JPG for your own!!
Super Brooke reacts to the display with "Shock and Awe" as anyone would do. Her "powers" of cleaning were soon put to the test...
Our memorial to Christmas 2006, complete with commemorative candy cane:
One final moment of silence. Ashley snags a mouthful of stale cookie...
Here is what 30 cases of cookie, 10 pounds of sugar, 3 dozen eggs, and 5 bags of candy look like at the end of a successful BONCIMINO Christmas:
AND NOW....THE GRAND FINALE -- ACTUAL video of the destruction event. ENJOY!
Hope you enjoyed the pictures and the video. As always, please give us your comments and feedback. We also need to figure out how we are going to top this next year. Suggestions?
Love,
G, C, A, B, and A...
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