We'll be enjoying the bitter cold in Idaho in a week and a half! We can't wait!On Sunday, we got to spend the evening with the Kinoshitas (second cousins on my Dad's side). These wonderful people have become our island family. We feel like we've gained another set of parents and more brothers and sisters. We LoVe it! And we're so blessed that they have taken us in as two more members of their family as well. At least every two weeks, we head over to their house in Kaneohe and enjoy some family time - just like Sundays in Idaho. This week, we got to help them set up their Christmas tree.
We felt lucky to be able to decorate a tree this year! We didn't buy our own and our parents' will already be set up when we get home. We had fun; blaring Christmas tunes and hanging ornaments with the other kids.
The Kinoshitas even surprised us with our very own Christmas presents. We got some hot local shirts and a countertop oven! We can start making real food! We feel pretty darn certain that the Kinoshitas are the nicest people on earth.
In other news, Brent also found us a crock pot at a garage sale for $2. First thing we made was chocolate cake. Our first homemade pastry in over four months. It was delicious!
We're moving up in life!As we were walking home from the bus stop last night, some people on our street had just gotten in from fishing and their boat was full of hundreds of fish in a fishnet. Our next door neighbor bought some and invited us over to try it. We watched as he gut the fish, tossed some Hawaiian salt on top, and pan-fried them.
I never would've thought I'd eat a fish that was presented to me like this, but it was delicious! Brent and I devoured three! Fresh fish that had been swimming in the ocean less than an hour ago. A-Ma-Zing.
You wanna talk about amazing? find a bottle of banana ketchup (filipino product) and rice and that fish. A-Ma-Zing! Try it. If you can't find banana ketchup we will buy it in Boise when we get home. You will love it fore sure. JOE
ReplyDeleteHoly cow. That is so nice of them to give you an oven! It's cool how close you are to extended family on your dad's side. But then again you're pretty close to me too, I'd say.
ReplyDeleteP.S. That cake looks incredible. I want it.
YAY for an oven! I'm so excited that we get to play soon. Enjoy all the family/Christmasy goodness and I'll see YOU around newyears! :)
ReplyDeleteFun that you could have such fresh fish--Great that you have such nice/sharing neighbors too. I'll tell you what(who) I think is A-Ma-Zing: the Kinoshitas!!! They truly think of/treat you two as if you were their own children. How sweet and wonderful of them.
ReplyDeleteYour cake is very impressive. Nice job there.
Also Mele Kalikimaka to ONE AND ALL!
(I remember loving the feeling on campus there at Christmas time.)
Oh I love Christmas on campus! Because, yeah, it is easy to forget that it's coming. And then you walk into the Aloha Center and it's all decked out in Christmas decorations....Love it! They'll keep that Mele Kalikimaka sign up well into February!
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