How about a watermelon whale?

After our mothers day buffet, we have been having a different watermelon carving each week. We have had a swan, a peacock, a boat, and several others. Now that my breakfast cook left, I decided I really wanted to keep the tradition going. Unfortunately my other cook isn’t very artistic and neither am I. I figured if I started it the night before, and I took my time, maybe I could do something that looks cool. I did some reading online and found some pictures of a watermelon whale that I thought looked really cool, so I printed it out and started drawing lines on a watermelon. It took about two hours to complete, but I have to say, I really think I did a good job.

For some reason I came up with this great idea to put the watermelon in the freezer after carving it. I am guessing in my sleep deprived state this probably made sense, but the first thing I thought of this morning when I woke up was “Water”. A watermelon is made up of water. When I put the watermelon out on the buffet table, he really looked pretty good. He was a little frosty from being in the freezer, but other than that he was okay. After a couple of hours the tail started to sag which actually looked kind of cool. By about eleven o’clock the whole thing was sagging and didn’t look like much of a whale anymore. At the busiest point during the buffet there wasn’t much left of my cool whale. The bright side is that I was able to carve a watermelon, and now I know that the freezer is a bad idea.