Avery's Bottle

Here's the short story I posted on facebook.  Just glad everyone was out of the kitchen and stayed safe.

Michael and I got a bottle of sparkling wine when Avery was born.  It has her name, the date she was born, and her birth weight and length on it.  We intended to keep it as a momento all her life.  Well, today we learned a valuable lesson about the differences between champaigne and sparkling wine.  Packaging.  You see, champaigne bottles have a little wire caging on the top of the bottle to keep it closed since it's sparkling, pressurized, and full of carbon dioxide.  Sparkling wine DOES NOT have this same feature.  That means that over time, the pressure can build up and push the cork out of the bottle.  Thank goodness we were home when this happened!  The wine uncorked itself, shot wine across our kitchen (from the top of the fridge to the picture window), and POURED down the side of our freezer.  It managed to knock a vase of flowers off the counter and onto the floor (which thankfully didn't break) and has seemed to have covered the entire kitchen in a layer of stickiness.  I feel sad that this momento has lost some of it's wonder and magic (as now it's just an empty bottle), but I'm glad the bottle didn't break or do any more damage than it did.  What a way to end the day!  *sigh*  I'm going to bed.