New Eats

Yesterday some friends of ours convinced us to join them for some Ethiopian food. It was our first time, and I do have to say I wasn't quite in the mood to try something new, but I'm glad we did! For some reason I thought the food would be bland, but it was actually quite the opposite.

I had delicious curried chicken {currently eating the left overs} and two other vegetable dishes that included chick peas and lentils, and other stuff, mixed to perfection to look similar to baby food. {Audrey and Noel, I now see how you were able to convince Mini Coop to eat it}. I also enjoyed the whole eating with your fingers thing with the bread-like (pancake-like?) stuff.

Not sure I would go as far as to say I would eat it on a regular basis, but I was pleasantly surprised, and would eat it again.

Yum.

I'm clearly so domestic.



My mom gave me a recipe that turned out delicious. I made one with, and one without chocolate chips, of course. {banana bread in case you couldn't tell}

In a land far, far away...

Once upon a time , I wrote this post. I never did end up finding/meeting Johnny Depp, I tried twice and barely missed him both times! Quite tragic, really.

Well, as the free movie tickets keep rolling in, we keep going. Yesterday we watched Pirates 4, and it was pretty good, nothing amazing; although I never get tired of checking out Captain Jack Sparrow...

It was fun to see the scenes of where we found the actual movie sets while in Hawaii. Sadly, I don't have any pictures of them {Bullocks? Maybe you have them all?}, but in the movie it's when they are in kinda a jungle-y area, and where all the small pools of water are, and where the mermaid is strapped and abandoned; righteous man tries to save the day and cheesy lines are exchanged.

Now, I kinda wished we would have taken the abandoned props like we wanted to, would have been cool, but oh well.

They need to stop making movies in Hawaii so that we don't get homesick for it as much. We're convinced though that we WILL go back to visit one day, and maybe even live there again for a little bit? Who knows; your guess is as good as mine.

Point and laugh

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I saw this picture and thought it was pretty funny. I can't believe that people actually believed that the world was going to end yesterday? I'm really curious how those people spent their day. For me, it was just another day. Although, I do have to say that the looting aspect of the event WAS kind of tempting {we do want a TV after all} but alas we didn't give in.

Hope you had a great weekend!

Close Call

Two days ago, Wolfgang and I had to use some services at the FedEx store, and as I went to go put my debit card in the little reader thing, I noticed my debit card was GONE. yes, gone. I was a little alarmed, but not freaking out; I figured it was probably at home somewhere. Well, I got side tracked and forgot about it {yeah, I know, something kinda important to forget about, right?} until I was in bed about ready to attempt to fall asleep. So I hurried outta bed and started searching....and searching...and Wolfgang even got up and looked in the car for me....nowhere to be found!

So I hurried and checked our bank account to see if someone had stolen it and was using it {they would be disappointed anyway, b/c they wouldn't get very far} and luckily the answer to that was No. Then, I remembered that earlier that same day that we went to FedEx, I had been there even earlier that day, and I specifically remembered taking my card out of the copy machine, but I didn't remember getting it out of the fax machine.

Crap.

I called FedEx, and they had it!! I was so relieved. So at midnight I go and get my card back- they even had it in their "vault!" Quality service I tell ya. I don't know whether or not a customer or an employee found it and returned it, but I'm so glad that there are still some honest people out there.

Make-over

In case you couldn't tell, I gave my blog a complete make-over.

Do you like it? It only took me about 80 years to A. make up my mind of what I wanted and B. put it all together, change colors, dimension, etc. {I'm not very good at this type of stuff} so that it will look the least amateur as possible.

You know, I have a lot of time on my hands, so what else am I going to do? It was kinda fun.

Hawaii Corner

Hawaii will always be a big part of our lives. It is the place where Wolfgang and I met, where we got engaged, and where we both graduated together with our Bachelors Degree from BYU-Hawaii.

Since our walls are quite bare, we decided to dedicate a section of our living room wall to Hawaii, by decorating it with some things we brought over when we moved. You can't really see the pictures very well, but they are the photography of the late Jon Mozo.

The bottom pictures isn't crooked as it looks here...

The top left hand picture can be seen better here and the bottom right picture can be found here (click the button "Click to enlarge" on the website). {except it doesn't say his name huge right in the middle of it}

One day we want to have a large canvas on our wall of one of his pictures :)