broken wine glasses

When we got married we received 12 wine glasses from our registry. For some reason we thought it would be cool to have giant wine glasses. This was a bad idea for two reasons: giant wine glasses hold...a lot of wine...and they break easily. First off, the giant wine glasses are so big that we have a tendency to pour too much wine into them. No one needs a quart of wine in their glass. We didn't think of that when we picked them out.

Second, these glasses, although really pretty, are quite thin. This leads to broken glasses, especially after having one or two filled with wine. I admit that *most* of the broken glasses have been a result of my clumsiness. Either I walk by one on a table on our patio or knock one over with my big meat paws. Last night I just plain knocked one into the sink. A sink full of dishes.

As our supply of giant wine glasses began to dwindle we realized that it was time for new, smaller, more durable glasses. Oh, and ones that can go into the dishwasher. That was another pain in the butt thing about the big glasses - they had to be hand washed.

We have the BEST liquor store in our town, Total Wine and Spirits. It is like Toys-R-Us for adults. It is huge and they have every wine/liquor/beer product imaginable. Steven was even able to find the vodka he liked that is widely available in Russia, but hard to come by in the US.

Anyway, they also have wine glasses. Cheap wine glasses. We bought 12 for our recent book club and none were broken. They aren't as nice as the giant wine glasses, but they are a better size, thicker glass, and can go in the dishwasher.

We have one giant wine glass left. I wonder how long it will last. Maybe I should just break it now and put it out of its misery.

* The image of the wine glass is not mine, although it looks a lot like our giant wine glasses. I didn't take a picture of the broken wine glass in the sink because we went to bed with the glass broken all over our dirty dishes. It's not an image I want to share with anyone :) I did clean up the mess this morning before work and all is now right in the world.