Wednesday, April 6, 2011

What I have learned

1) Eight years past its expiration date, Baileys Irish Cream will not be consumable. Apparently the alcohol to dairy ratio is not high enough to keep the milk/cream from becoming the most curdled glopped up mess you can imagine. I am so glad that Johno insisted we move it, only to throw it out once we were here. (And yes I was looking to put some in my coffee).
2) We were not as careful in the move as we thought.
Here's the back-story.
We took many precautions with the many liquids that we moved (take that professional van lines with your prohibitions on liquids!). Each evening we would unload two cases of wine from the car, along with a suitcase, a ski stuff bag, an electronics bag, and water bottles. We did this because we are idiots that move in the winter it was winter outside and very cold. [I had an indoor / outdoor thermometer in the car (the outdoor portion was deep within the truck) and the internal truck temp was around 23 degrees until we made it past Spokane. ] The second morning, I realized that we had not removed a 3rd box of wine. It held four bottles, most were taller and therefore did not fit in the other two cartons. We got here, unloaded the truck, there was no red seepage coming out of any of the boxes, we breathe a sigh of relief. Weeks pass, we rediscover the wine box that never made it out of the truck and we find this:
But I guess if this is our big glaring mistake and only thing that was damaged in the move, we did quite well. (And we're not going to throw it away so really what was the damage?)

2 comments:

  1. yeah that was worded funny, I was just trying to say we had a lot of stuff to haul in every night..

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