NW Trek

We went to NW Trek with the residents yesterday. It was very enjoyable! Enjoy the photos!

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Today has been a busy day for me. A fun busy night I should say! After work I decided to chop my hair off. I love it! (Pictures will be posted soon after I play around with it.) I then went and hung drapes at Margaret’s and played with Samuel who LOVED messing up my hair. I can’t wait until the morning when I see the bed head! He kept telling me he doesn’t like my short hair but I love it!

I have said it on the blog before that this was the year I was going to try new foods. I have been adventurous these past couple months with pancakes, salmon, crab, shrimp and octopus. When I got home tonight I was told I had to try something. I made Wayne Hathaway tell me what it was before I tried it. I gagged while chewing it just knowing what I was eating and I am so glad I did not see it before I ate it because I wouldn’t have eaten it. After tasting it, I might give it a second chance! Yes, tonight I ate pig’s tongue! Crazy, huh? I can’t believe I ate it. I am not a picky eater… just selective AND I ATE PIG’S TONGUE!!!

Do the Puyallup

I really wasn’t into going to the fair this year. Paul and Avery called me up on Saturday (I had a lazy day and did nothing all day but wash bedding at the laundromat, read books and watch Hulu) and invited me to go at 8:00pm…. so I did…. nothing really to see that late except all the crazy people so we walked around and visited the new Rainforest exhibit… which was fun!!!!!! We then waited in line for 1 1/2 hours for scones… not my favorite thing in the world!

Avery at the beginning of the exhibit… we even bounced on lilly pads!!!

Paul and I

My new ant boyfriend being eaten by a praying mantis!

Laura Turtle

Paul Turtle

Avery Turtle

The Project Part 2

Here are more photo updates from Margaret’s home. It is coming together quite nicely. Today we picked up drapes. THANK YOU MOM! We have been looking at Bed, bath, and Beyond for drapes and the cost was adding up way too quickly. I called my mom about the ease of just sewing and she suggested we try JcPenney’s. They had great clearance and we save a lot of money. The panels are energy-saving panels and are thick and beautiful. After they are ironed or the wrinkles hang out of them I will post pictures… Plus that room is not quite finished yet…

The downstairs bathroom is a very simplistic “beachy chic” theme. it is very calm and relaxing! Her son wanted to help decorate and said that they boat needed a person… So it stayed (for now 🙂 ). And of course had to take a picture of the desk for the master bedroom. It needed to be smaller so it didn’t take up too much room and this little guy worked perfectly…. Plus Margaret and I put it together and it so far has stayed together!!! I love putting furniture together!!!!!!

3rd Annual Arbor Village Iron Chef 2012

UGH! It isn’t bad enough that I can not sleep but the blog I started typing completely just disappeared sooo… instead of doing a BIG update, I am going to do a couple small updates. I am editing pictures from our outing to NW Trek today so I can get them sent to our website lady to be posted.

Friday, September 14th- 3rd Annual Iron Chef Competition

This is one of my more favorite events at Arbor Village. Besides the initial preparation once the event goes under way, I really do not have to do much. Usually I am running around with my head chopped off and this event I can really just watch and run around with my head held on my multiple strings! It is great! This year our secret ingredient was Avocados. I told myself a couple months ago that this was my year to try new foods. I definitely did that on this day!! So here are some pictures of the food I tried:

Whipped Goat Cheese and Avocado Bruschetta topped with fresh mint… OH MY GOODNESS! This was heavenly! You couldn’t taste the goat cheese and the mixture was absolutely amazing! It was fresh and fluffy. I dream about this frequently!

Vuelve la Vida (I am not sure if I remember the name correctly). It means “Bringing back to life”. Supposedly in Mexico when you drink ALOT you eat this to bring you back to life. I do not eat seafood… never really have but because this is my year to try new foods I had shrimp alfredo a couple weeks ago and loved it! I was chugging down this very tasty dish and started chewing…. and chewing… and chewing some more. My coworker Jessica looked at me and said, “You know you are eating Octopus, right?” UHM, NO I DIDN’T! I enjoyed it though. This also had crab and shrimp in it. I ate probably 6 of these! I even saw a little octopus leg with the little suction cups and ate it! SO PROUD OF MYSELF!

I thought I got a picture of the other seafood appetizer but I didn’t. IT WAS SOOOO delicious! It was a shrimp cocktail with a mango avocado salsa. It was heavenly. the shrimp didn’t taste shrimpy and the salsa was so delicious. It had was fresh and citrusy and a bowl full of heaven. I ate leftovers of this for days! (With fresh roti from my Fijian coworker!)

 

Oh, change my mind… you really can not see it but this resident is eating the shrimp cocktail. It is in his left hand. I guess I should explain a little history on the appetizers. The first year we had mangos as the not-so secret ingredient. We didn’t have appetizers. The residents got mad (they get jealous easily). The second year we had mint as our ingredient and told the judges they needed to prepare 100 appetizers. Everyone in attendance got to test the appetizers and vote on the winner. This would be the tie breaker.

 

Luckily the chef that made this made extras. It was a stuffed avocado with crab. UHM! SO GOOD!!

 

Anyways, this was a great event. If you would like to see more pictures… take a look at the Arbor Village website (you can see the desserts also!):

3rd Annual Arbor Village Iron Chef 2012

Afterthougt: I forgot to post the best picture of all! My work sissy, Jessica and I!