Calista Kelso
4th Grader from Mary B. Sharpe Elementary School
your Choconutty Fudge Monkey won our First Ice Cream Sundae Contest! Unfortunately, Calista and her family will not be able to attend A Taste of the Arts to celebrate her sundae, but they were invited to Olympia Candy Kitchen on Wednesday to enjoy Calista's ice cream creation!
Thank you to the over 200 students who entered. We were thrilled with the response and hope to have another Ice Cream Sundae contest next year!!
-Tony & Will Pananes, Olympia Candy Kitchen
Getting started...
Tony taught Cali the secret to perfectly topped whipped cream.
... wouldn't be complete without a cherry!
On Wednesday, 30 April, we were trying to get the kids showered & settled while packing the final necessities for a family trip to Cancun. Wake up call was to be at 5 AM Thursday and it was already going on 9 - with everyone moving in slow motion. Calista was in the shower, Elijah couldn't find his shoes and the phone was ringing - which no one else in the house could hear. Cheyenne chose that moment to tell me that she "forgot" that she still had an important part of a group project that needed to be dropped off to another member of her group BEFORE we left - translation: NOW. I, sigh at her, and answer the phone to discover that Calsita won the ice cream sundae contest offered by Olympia Ice Cream Parlor as a part of the Downtown Business Council's "Taste of the Arts". Did I mention that I had just spent most of Tuesday and all of Wednesday pulling together a Teacher Appreciation Luncheon for the 150 CAMS faculty? Tony Pananes is excitedly telling me that he needs her to be there on Friday for this photo op, making her sundae. When I explain that we'll be out of the country then he asks if she could come NOW? So at 9PM we head off to Olympia - after dropping off Cheyenne's project. It turned out to be a lot of fun. They had her make her sundae - which she devoured! - took lots of pictures and gave her some T-shirts and candy. I even got some dark chocolate covered espresso beans! Thanks, Tony!! Calsita loved every minute of her 30 minutes of fame and through God's grace we made it home, got quickly finished and even managed 6 hours of sleep! So it was totally worth some additional craziness on an already too-full day!
Cali's sundae will be featured on the menu for at least a month - longer if it's a popular seller.
It consists of ....
a dollop of hot fudge on the bottom
1 scoop of Olympia's homemade banana ice
1 scoop of Olympia's homemade vanilla ice cream
drenched with hot fudge
and topped with fresh banana slices, whipped cream and toasted coconut
YUM!
YUM!
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