Today was nice and relaxing after school. I didn't have much going on other than a few students who showed up. I wasn't going to work out tonight so I just came home and started doing a little grading. Afterward, I made some ice cream in my ice cream maker. While I was home for Christmas I had worked a little at my old office and while I was at work one day, Jan, a coworker, said that I needed an ice cream maker. I had to agree so she said that she was going to get one for me. It isn't an actual machine that you plug in, but a plastic ball about the size of a soccer ball. It is designed for camping trips, picnics, etc. There are two compartments. One compartment is for the ice cream ingredients. The other side is for the ice and rock-salt. Since we don't have cream, I mixed together some powdered milk, water, sugar, and vanilla. Surprisingly, it came out tasting very good. Haitian vanilla tastes great. I poured this into the metal canister on the one end and then filled the other end with ice and rock-salt. The way this works is you toss the ball around or if you are by yourself, you just shake it up and the freezing ice sloshes around the outside of the metal canister slowly freezing the mixture. After ten minutes, you open the ice cream side and stir it up after scraping the frozen sides. You then shake it for about ten more minutes and it is done. It was pretty easy to do and made great ice cream. The only thing is that it only makes a pint so I wasn't wanting to share too much! After making the ice cream I put it in the freezer, had dinner and I then watched U-571 with Jonny as we both worked on some homework. Half way through the movie I pulled out the ice cream and we devoured it!