Things I learned this Easter

To start the morning off. I took my Catholic boyfriend to a nondenominational church. As we are walking up to the church, he starts asking me and Hayley if he needs to do the sign of the cross, where is the holy water, when does he kneel, what does he need to say, etc. Hayley told him that all he needs to do at a nondenominational church is to sit down and take a short nap. By the way, he really enjoyed the service.

Next was on to Mom's house for a huge Easter lunch. Horror of horrors. Mom's corkscrew has been broken for years. It only had one arm, but now the screw was missing.  So my brother has a great idea to push the cork through the bottle so we did that which was a little messy.

But so while we have an empty bottle of wine with a cork in it, my stepfather wants us to place a bet. He says he can use a napkin to get the cork out of the bottle. What he didn't tell us that this trick was going to take about 40 minutes. It got quite scary towards the end. I was sure my brother was going to be going through a wall as he was pulling this napkin and cork out of the bottle while my stepfather was holding it. So as a public service announcement, I'm posting a youtube showing the short version of this trick. Skip to about 40 seconds to see the cork come out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL5xkO95XG4

Also, for my brother, I'm posting a new workaround in case we ever find ourselves in this situation again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEPz1nkiwLI