Eggstra Special (First Post)

Hi all, this is Michael. Those of you who read this blog have probably heard of me, I'm Nichole's husband (the blog recluse). I actually do exist and have a vague understanding of how computers and blogs work :) I am just a little lazy about writing posts. But this weekend something so amazingly fantastic happened that I decided to forgo my usual evening sloth and spend a few minutes writing down the details of our 'egg'strodinary encounter.

It all started on Friday, Nichole and I had just come back from the gym and were going to have a quick lunch of scrambled eggs (a favorite in the Pate household). I was just about to hop in the shower when Nichole yelled from the kitchen "Michael, come here quick!" I hurried from the bathroom (fully clothed, FYI) to the kitchen to see what was happening. She had found that the egg she cracked had a double yolk (Wikipedia's thoughts on double yolked eggs). I thought this was pretty cool, I had never seen a double yolked egg before. She then continued making lunch, cracked the second egg and to our surprise it too had two yolks. This continued until Nichole had cracked five eggs, half of the package, all five had two yolks apiece!


I couldn't believe that we had found five double yolked eggs in a row. We had purchased a package of ten eggs and the first five were all double yolked! I was pretty convinced at this point that we should put the remaining five eggs on e-bay and let some one buy the eggs on the off chance they were buying five double yolked eggs (you know someone would have paid some money for them).

Saturday we went to the gym early again and then came home and decided to hard-boil the remaining five eggs to see if we could get some cool hardboiled two yolk eggs. Sure enough as we cracked the shells and cut the eggs in half, all but one were two yolk eggs.


So to recap, we bought a package of ten eggs, nine of which were double-yolked. The odds of this seem to be pretty astronomical, but there it is. I was so inspired (or high on yolkey-goodness) that I decided to write my first blog entry here! Maybe now that I have started I'll write more often, but probably not :)