The Cinnamon challenge

I know as a part of my last blog I talked about how much I loved my friends and ejoy their friendships... well... not so sure how I feel after last night! Some of the boys showed up at my house to watch the dunk challenge... woo! I sure love spending my weekends watching basketball. They dared me to eat a spoonfull of cinnamon. They said this was "initiation" into the group. I was like no way at first. I wasnt really sure what would happen if I were to do that but I was pretty sure it probably wouldnt be good. They kept egging me on and showed me videos of Mitch doing it another night. He did it easily, as if there were no problem. So I said okay I would. Sawyer hadnt done it yet either so we decided to do it together. Went upstairs to do it in my kitchen. They measured the cinnamon and it wasnt on some regular spoon. no. It had to be the large ones! They got their  little phones out and recorded this.  Sawyer and I went at the same time. I just shoved it into my mouth and I swear cinnamon was coming out of my nose! It was HORRIBLE! I was fine until it came to the point where I had to start swallowing and then I gagged and spit it out. I had inhaled it when I fist put it in and was coughing up a lung! Sawyer threw his up too... I was caughing and blowing cinnamon out of my nose for quite some time. I even threw up like 20 min after the whole thing happened. (they boys still dont know this.... didnt want to look like a wimp!) Well I am pretty sure I started having an allergic reaction to this. after 45 min of throwing up, my mom looked up the symptoms and I had every one of them. My lips were swelling, Nausea, Runny nose, my eyes hurt... oh I just did not feel good! I took 2 benedril to get it to go down! of course the rest of the night I was not able to watch the dunk contest (bummer) because I couldnt even walk straight due to the benedril! I spent the rest of the night asleep on my couch while my friends did whatever they were doing! haha so moral of this story is.... 1. Even when you are dared to do something, its not always a good idea. 2. My body is not like the boys and cant handle a spoonful of cinnamon. 3. dont take 2 benedril!