Baker for a Day

Today I had kind of an odd shift.  Every third thursday I am on what they call the X shift and we usually work from 8-5 and its a day of deep cleaning the whole galley and dining room area.  But today, I was lucky enough to be chosen to help in the bakery.  So while my whole team spent the day scrubbing and cleaning who knows what, I spent 8 hours baking.  It was actually a lot of fun but not an easy job.  Everyday they bake 70 loaves of bread for ships company and lots of cakes and cookies and such to serve to our visitors who stop by the I-Cafe down on deck 4.  So during my time today I cracked over 450 eggs, helped make enough cookie dough for 1,000 cookies that turn out to be about the size of my hand (now thats a lot of dough).  I also helped make, bake, and decorate 12 chocolate cakes, 12 coffee cakes, and 10 fruit cakes.  By the time I was finished I was so covered in batter and icing :)  All was going perfectly well until I started having to cover things and put them in the freezer.  Now this freezer is one of those walk-in freezers that you see on the movies, you know, the kind that you could hide a dead body in! Kinda creepy!  I really think that the giant plastic wrap and the plastic things that hang in the entry way of the freezer had a conspiracy against me!  The plastic wrap just would not cooperate for anything and every time I went to walk into the freezer, I swear the plastic came alive and grabbed at me and tried to keep me from walking through and then did everything they could to grab the cakes out of my hands and send them crashing to the floor while dropping chunks of ice on my head!  I'm serious!  It was quite the battle, but in the end I prevailed!!