Last night my brother came home and informed me that he would be staying up quite late because he waited until the last minute to write his paper. Yay procrastination. He was craving smoothies as well. We had only two ingredients; orange juice and ice, so we had to go to a supermarket.

There we found the rest of what we wanted; strawberries, vanilla ice cream, and a couple of bananas. We also found some peach nectar and we were pretty stoked about that.

While we were looking for other things to eat (everyone else in the house left to Mexico) we found some bagel bites (pizza deliciousness) and other stuff. In that same isle we saw some blenders and we scoffed at them. This later bit us both in the butt. :C

So we get home and I'm putting everything into the blender we have. I push a button and all it does is make a loud growling noise. I look at the bottom, and the parts that grip (and cause the blades to spin) are so worn down that they're useless.

Mmk, no problem... we still have the food processor, right? That too does not want to work at all. Which is odd because my parents made carrot cake not too long ago and it was working just FINE. Sam and I then realize that we're pretty doomed now. We still want those smoothies!

We found a messy solution. You know that little Slap Chop thing? Well, we've had a similar chopper from Pampered Chef, so we start pouring chunks of strawberry, banana, etc., into a bowl and put the chopper into the mess and start hitting the chopping-button-thing.

Prior to the chopper thing I was using a potato masher in a giant pitcher to try to break the fruit down to size. It wasn't working at all.

Despite all of our shortcomings, the smoothie still tasted great; it just had a lot more texture and chunks of ice. "It had character."