Hotpot

Saturday evening was a fun, fun night!  Full of laughs, great and enlightening conversations, and lots of food, too much food actually!  Reminiscing on the last time we had hotpot at Spam's house was fun.  I still don't understand how we were able to clog up the sink with our bean sprouts.  And looking back, why would we buy bean sprouts in the first place?!

(Some snippets from the evening)

Talks

This morning, I had breakfast with a dear friend. We have been friends for far too long--over 10 years! We have been through a lot and I know that we will go through a lot more together. She has always been there for me and I hope that she knows that I will try to do the same for her as well. I have learned a lot from her and it is really good to know that God has blessed me with such a wonderful sister in Christ.

We went to Panera Bread, which just opened across from Square One. I had the spinach and artichoke egg souffle with a caramel latte. Yummy!

It was good times, filled with amazing conversations. I know that God was there and may we always be able to encourage one another in prayer!

We then went shopping for a hat for Aban since spending a year outside of the country, she needs to be re-acclimated to Canada's winter! =p And way to go Walmart for providing a nice green hat! And in the words of Aban, now with my brown jacket, I will look like a tree! A sight to behold I tell you!

Geek

Today was a good day.

We went apple-picking today for Zoe, and even though not a lot of people showed up, it was still fun times. Got to spend time with Pastor John & Cindy, Uncle Joe & family, and Elvin. Even though there were concerns that there wouldn't be many apples left we were pleasantly greeted with many Mutsu and Ida Red apples to be picked to be eaten and used for pie, respectively. We picked apples until about 12 and then went for dim sum at a Chinese restaurant in Brampton. Food was good, restaurant was clean, and the fellowship time was worth the extra dollars =D

Then we got down to be geeks for the afternoon. Well mainly Richard because he was helping me format my laptop. He did a great job because my laptop is now running so fast and smoothly now - I guess that's what you get for 3 years of stuff accumulating on your HD and such. And then after formatting my computer he proceeded to help format Kev Yee's computer and my brother's computer as well! This all the while when Kev Yee and I were making apple crumbles in the kitchen. It was almost like our little factory - it sort of reminded of the time when I enlisted Kelly to help for the CCF EM and we had our little sweatshop making sausage rolls, mini-sandwiches, and egg salad - just great times slaving over the oven =) We made 6 apple crumbles for our pastors and will distribute accordingly tomorrow. We also made a special delivery to Kelly who was studying hard for her exams this upcoming week.

The rest of the night was filled with the boys playing Mario Strikers while I was making my brain grow playing Big Brain Academy on Richard's DS. All in all, a very good day indeed.

Grey's Fondue

Last night I decided to get some people together to watch Grey's Anatomy over some fondue. This has been 2 weeks in the making as I was disappointed last week that Grey's had been pre-empted by the vice-presidential and leaders debates in the US and Canada, respectively.

It was definitely tons of fun despite the episode being less than high quality - there were some good parts - but the fondue made up for the not so great episode. I think the season premiere set the bar quite high this season.

The fellowship with one another was very fun and enjoyable.

(we actually had 3 bowls of chocolate going)

(bananas, apples, strawberries & marshmallows! oh my!)

Some highlights of the night:
- fondue etiquette quote
- everyone needing water
- devouring the plate of bananas (good call by Ruby & Rita)
- Kelly's surprise! (biscotti & marshmallows)
- making frozen marshmallows and fruit gummies dipped in chocolate (picture below)
- everyone watching ER afterwards and commenting how their interns don't know anything, but Grey's interns do! haha
- awkward political smear campaign commercials

There was a lot of apples and pears left over, so I made an apple & pear crisp for my family to enjoy!