Hello, fellow cake lovers! Have you missed me? I have certainly missed my cakes. Due to some personal family matters, my cake team and I took a short hiatus, but we are
back! I've got seven cakes coming your way today, along with some rule breaking, some wildlife seeing, and some people meeting. Enjoy the ride.
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| Jason, Bri, and Kelby |
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| Scott Air Force Base Cake |
This first cake was actually found almost a month ago, but I didn't have time to post about it. This one is at the
Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. We were passing by on our way out of town, and Jason suggested we stop and take a picture with it since we were there. It was pretty entertaining because to get the picture with all three of us in it, Kelby had to put her phone in her shoe and set a camera timer. I think it worked out pretty well, since this is my favorite cake picture. It's the background on my phone now. Unfortunately, we didn't get the app points for this cake, so we'll have to back, but that's okay because...cakes.
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| Debbie and candle |
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| World Bird Sanctuary Cake |
So, no cakes for a while after that, but yesterday, my mom asked if I wanted to do a quick cake hunt while Jason spoke on his radio show. Of course I agreed! I love cakes! We tried to start with the cake at Maritz, but we passed it up, so we ended up starting with the
World Bird Sanctuary. We arrived at 5:17, but it closed at five... Mom decided fences and closing times were no match for her, and went to get the cake anyway. I held down the fort (...car) while she took pictures with the cake. Ridiculous. No one spotted her, so everything went better than expected. We scurried to our next cake...
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| Bri (very excited to be caking again) |
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| Lone Elk Park Cake (again) |
...at
Lone Elk Park! You may remember this cake from
this post, but we didn't have the app points, so we had to redo it. We drove around the park for a little bit and saw some cute animals (like a family of raccoons, an elk standing on a shelter roof, and some more elk crossing the road). Mom wasn't paying enough attention to the road signs, so we actually looped around the park twice, but that's okay.
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| Bri |
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| Endangered Wolf Center |
Sticking with our animal theme, we went to the
Endangered Wolf Center next. Of course, it was already closed, but Mom promised we could go back another time when it was open (wolves are cool, guys). We saw some other cake hunters, but they were already back in their car before we could get a chance to talk to them. After we took our cake picture and collected our points, we pulled over and made a list of some other cakes in the area that we wanted to get (we unfortunately didn't end up hitting them all), and then it was back on the road to continue the search!
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| Bri |
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| Castlewood State Park Cake |
Up next was the
Castlewood State Park cake. I convinced Mom that it was her turn to take a picture with the cake. She wasn't a very big fan of that idea, and wouldn't let me post the picture on the blog (she's lame). It was pretty weird having just the two of us out for a cake hunt, but no one else wanted to go because they're all losers. We didn't spend too much time at this cake because, like I said, there were a lot of other cakes we wanted to hit that day.
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| Maritz Cake |
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| Bri |
We went back to
Maritz and found the right entrance. That place is
huge. So we finally find the cake, and as we're getting back in the car, we see the cake hunters from the Endangered Wolf Center pulling in. Of course, I had to talk to them. They'd found around 30-something cakes, with their two younger kids in tow. They seemed more interested in the cakes than talking to me, so I made our conversation pretty brief, and Mom and I headed out to our final cake for the day. On our way out of the parking lot, we saw a giant turkey! A real turkey. I was ecstatic. I really like animals... He refused to be photographed and kept hiding in the bushes, so we left him alone and proceeded to our last cake.
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| Bri |
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| Laumeier Sculpture Park Cake |
I'm not sure if you've ever been to
Laumeier Sculpture Park, but it is
amazing. We parked in the wrong parking lot for the cake, so we decided to walk to it instead of driving around trying to find the right one. We finally found it, and I have to be honest here, it's my favorite cake so far. It has so much detail and texture. One of my friends who saw a picture thought it looked like dynamite, which I think is super cool. Love love love this cake. And we met three different cake hunting groups at this one! On our walk to the cake, we encountered a group of three who had found over a hundred cakes. I'm always jealous of those people. I can't wait to hit the 100 mark. Then, at the cake, we met Peg, who had found about 25. We talked to her for a while and compared notes about various cakes and she showed us some of her pictures. She takes pictures of all sides of the cakes, and she's making a PowerPoint of all of them when she's done. Just as we were about to leave, a young couple and their one-year-old son came up and they took some pictures with the cake. I don't remember how many cakes they had, but I think it was somewhere in the 90s. I love meeting other cake enthusiasts, so if you ever see my cake team and me out and about, say hi! We'd love to chat about cakes with you.
Our cake hunting day was cut short because Jason needed to be picked up from the radio show, and by the time we were ready to leave, it was already too dark to continue our hunt.
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| Bonus Picture: breakin' the law |
I can't wait until next time! Which might be sooner than you think! xoxo Cake Hunter
PS: cake count is now at
63!
