Epic Fail -The highest form of fail known to man. --Urban Dictionary

Yesterday was the Super Bowl.  And while you were all back home having super bowl parties at a normal hour a few of us "Spaniards" decided to have a super bowl party of our own.  At midnight we all went over to our friend's (Rosie's) apartment because her señora is gone for the whole week!  Greg (nuestra hombre, aka our man, aka the only boy in our program) paid $2 to subscribe to a website so we could watch the game with the commercials on the internet, and we settled in to watch the game and plan trips for during the semester.(Left to right, Sarah, Rosie, Eve)

Now one important thing to note for this story is that so far Rosie is the only person who has an oven in their kitchen out of all of us.  We aren't sure how it happened but somehow nobody bakes here.  So they don't waste time owning an oven.
So having discovered the oven we all got overly ambitious and decided to make cookies for an all-American super bowl party.  So I went to the only convenience store open at 1:30am in Spain with Eve and all we could find for baking ingredients were eggs, flour, sugar, granulated brown sugar, and that was it.  But we were determined.

So we found a recipe for chocolate chip cookies on the internet that called for only sugar, eggs, butter, flour, and chocolate chips (which Sarah had brought from the US).  We made the dough the best we could considering the measuring cups here are on the metric system.  Now the tricky part was the oven.  Although we had it set to the correct temperature, converted to celsius of course, it was extremely hot and smoked a lot.  So before putting the cookies in we turned it down about 50 degrees celsius and set the timer.
After four minutes the cookies were already burning so we took them out.  Fortunately they were edible, but the chocolate chips definitely saved the day.  So for our second batch we turned the oven down to about 30 degrees celsius and let it cool off a bit first.  Unfortunately we forgot about the cookies and left them for about 10 minutes.  This was during the incredible half-time show.  Now I know Fergie's vocals were really bad to be honest, but I just love her.  I love the Black Eyed Peas.  And I loved the show.  So of course we got distracted and forgot about the cookies.  When I went to check them and opened the oven the cookies caught on fire and I experienced the most frantic two minutes of my life.
Unfortunately I have failed as a Safety Village teacher because I just sat there and tried to "fan" the fire out with a dish towel.  Rosie and Eve saved the day when they dumped a few bowls of water into the oven.  Normally Greg is very protective of us and insists on going out with us every time we go out so he can take care of us.  In this instance he picked watching the Packers win over putting out a fire but I've accepted at this point in life that sports have a special power over men, so there are no hard feelings there ;)

Once the fire drama was over and we had the apartment sufficiently aired out we settled down to watch the rest of the game and plan our trips to Paris and Amsterdam in April/May :)  Greg didn't know what to do with himself he was so happy that the Packers won, which made the whole night that much more fun.
All in all the Super Bowl party was very fun, but our complete lack of an ability to use the Spanish oven and bake cookies, and the fact that we were up until 4:30am, leads me to call this an Epic Fail.  Which is a lot better than a normal fail in my opinion because it created a great memory :)