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...and learning about all the plants...
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Amanda holding up the broken-off end of the bottle with the cork still inside.
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Hahaha.
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I gave her step by step instructions and stepped back to try to capture an action shot. Less than a minute later, BLAMO! Check out the action shot I managed to capture of Amanda cutting the bottle top clean off!
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I peeled the label off a bottle of champagne and announced that I was going to try to use a knife to "saber" the bottle (cut the top off of it!). Grant taught me how to do it back in July of 2006, and it's been my go-to "party trick" ever since! Right as I was warming up, Amanda said that she wanted to try doing it!
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Voila! He did it! He did it! (How awesome is that clean break?)
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I understood the basic principle, but was unable to get it to work the first few times I tried. (I've since gotten it down cold!) So I handed the bottle back over to Grizz and let him show off the magic!
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On Sunday afternoon, Grant came over and showed me how to use a knife to saber open a bottle of champagne!
Here's a vid of him in bottle-top-chopping action!
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A little over an hour later, and we'd arrived.