Gingerbread Castle ~ The BS Report

Once upon a time in a land far, far away, there was a little girl who always dreamed of growing up in a castle. (Those far away lands were Rock Springs, Wyoming, Casper, Wyoming, Double Oak, Texas and Las Vegas, Nevada and that little girl may or may not have been named Sarah.)

Since that dream never came to fruition, said little girl decided that she would have to settle for building a castle of her own. While she was studious laboring in her dungeon (lab/office without windows) trying to develop the perfect properties of the next great healing potion (prediction methods for chemical's environmental properties), she heard the sad news of a fair maiden in a nearby dungeon. This maiden (named Marjan) had come from a land that was truly far, far away (Iran) and had received news that her sister had passed away. (Her sister was only 27 years old and died of a surprise stroke.

Unfortunately for poor maiden Marjan, she was unable to visit the homeland because the road was to treacherous to return (she couldn't come back to the United States with her student visa if she leaves to go back to Iran). Sarah decided that in order to fulfill her childhood dream and also to cheer the spirits of the fair maiden Marjan, that they would construct the castle of their dreams together. They enlisted the help of a fire-breathing dragon (what castle is complete without one of those?) and Sarah's sister, Jennie.

They searched far and wide to find the materials (gingerbread) necessary to build the castle of their dreams while sharing with Marjan about their culture around Christmas time (decorating gingerbread houses). Unfortunately, they were unable to find the desired building materials, so the had to settle for what was available in their kingdom (graham crackers). They mixed up the cement necessary to hold everything together (frosting - if you can call it frosting when it holds a graham cracker up all by itself) and then began to build.