We're Certified!

We finally got that piece of paper. 

We traveled back to school on Tuesday afternoon for our graduation luncheon. We had a wonderful time with our families as we heard our chef instructors talk about the quality of work that this group of graduates puts forth. 

After countless hours in the kitchens at school during class hours, and even more we spent there for extracurricular activities, yesterday's luncheon brought our culinary education to a lovely close. 

We walked away yesterday afternoon with certificates of completion, and a wonderful feeling of accomplishment. As two young women starting out in this competitive industry, hearing words from our mentors like "come back and see us when you have your own bakery.." and "we're a family, maybe dysfunctional, but a family all the same" were inspiring and heart warming. 

We wouldn't trade our time in culinary school for anything, and it's very bittersweet to have it officially be over. After all without our time there, The Bakerettes would have never existed. It was through this journey that we became great friends, and willing to embark on this journey toward making our dreams come true together. 

It was in that lecture hall waiting for our ServSafe instructor to get to class, that we started chatting. Waiting for him to show up after two hours, we became friends. 

It was in our cookery class, where our chef always partenred us together referring to us as "The Pastry Chefs."

We're proud to announce that, yes, indeed we are: The Pastry Chefs. The Bakerettes. 

As they say this ending is merely the beginning of a new adventure.  

And so this new adventure begins, where it will take us we're not quite sure. But we know that as long as we have the unending support from our families that we've always had, and each other to remind us of our dreams, maybe someday, you'll see our shop, and the brunette and the red head back in the kitchen where we always hoped we would be.