Pig Ears

A lot of things have happened in the last two weeks, which kept me too busy (or too tired) to blog and there's just too much to try to play catch up. So we move right to the present.

For the 3rd Aug long weekend since we've been at the Liebenzell Mission we had the same Filipino Church group here for their retreat. We always have a lot of fun and enjoy their generous hospitatlity (Sat-Mon I only cook breakfast, lunch and supper we eat with our group).
So we eat a lot of rice, new and strange vegetables and yummy meats.
One of the camp leaders busy cooking. Salmon soup and some green veggie.

Katie could barely wait until they unwrapped the roasted pig that they brought out from a place in Toronto. She was so excited to try some, it didn't seem to bother her in the least that the pig still looked like a pig.

The piece of choice: the ear. Yup, they both loved sucking on the eat. They came up to us every once in a while for some rice, but they would not give up their ears. We really enjoyed the meat, and even some of the crunchy rind, but I don't think I could have munched on the ears the way the girls did.

This group comes all prepared with their own picnic shelter and a large outdoor stove/bbq. There are about 60 ppl of all ages and they are having a wonderful time.

Since Dad is traveling with his brothers from Switzerland for a couple of weeks, Mom came for an overnight visit. She got to enjoy the Filipino cuisine as well and then enjoyed snuggling with the girls during their bed time routine DVD.

I got some snuggle/reading time with the girls this afternoon. Normally Maya doesn't sit still long enough to listen to a story, but it looks like she got extra comfy and actually stayed put for a whole story (about 5 min;).

This coming week we are planning on building our shed for the rabbits. With lots of extra help it might just be done before we know it. We have my cousin from Switzerland and Jeff's second cousin (both 16 yrs old) here for the week. Jeff's parents for the day on Wed, Uncle Marc for the regular Tue/Wed stay, and our friends from Elmira for the day on Saturday. I'll be spending a lot of time in the kitchen I'm thinking. We're looking forward to it though, and the rabbits are growing so fast that the'll be needing their new home.
So I'll try to take pictures of the shed in progress for the next post.

Hope you'll have a great week.