Cold rain, hot chocolate

Yesterday afternoon, I left work to find myself in the middle of one of Utah's sporadic downpours- approximately 20 minutes long, cold, and heavy. I ran into Jill while making a beeline for my bike (apparently she gets out of school at 4:00 on Thursdays too!) and she suggested we wait until the rain stopped to go home. It would only have been about a 15-minute wait, but that's about how far away Wyview is from the Y, and I was determined just to get home as fast as possible.

Jill agreed to come with me, and together we braved the freezing wind and rain, riding our bikes with a hurried fervor (me more than her) until we could unlock the door to our wonderfully dry apartment, peel off our wet clothes, and mix up some hot chocolate.

To Jill's joy, there was a package waiting for her on the table when we got in from some of her beloved high school teachers in Tennessee. Inside were several tins of "BYU Blue Hot Chocolate- It's blue!" We both got the same idea: "Do you want to try some of this, Jess?" "You bet I do!" and we mixed in a few spoonfuls each of the chocolate powder into steaming mugs of hot water.

My first sip was nasty, to put it bluntly. There was not nearly enough chocolate in the water for my taste. (Jill commented it tasted great, but she also admitted she doesn't like a lot of chocolate powder in her hot chocolate.) I put in another spoonful of the stuff (it turns a deep navy blue in your cup) and tasted it again. Nothing much had changed, so I dragged a chair over to the fridge (yes, I have to use a chair to reach my cupboard above the freezer), fetched one of my hot chocolate packets and emptied its entire contents into my already-blue hot chocolate.

The color immediately changed from a pretty (though odd-looking) navy to, as Jill put it, "clogged-drain gray." When I stirred it, it looked like I was drinking sludge from off the street. Jill was so disgusted/amazed at what I'd done she took a picture with her phone and sent it to her teachers and her mom. I took a picture too. Then I drank it.

So... Much... BETTER!