Greek Plate

Drew and I (and J) on our anniversary date. We had lunch at Greek House in Norman; then we drove over to Blanchard, Newcastle, and Mustang to see the other houses we'd considered buying.

Cookie Decorating

At neighbors house, they had all the sprinkles! Followed by several rounds of hide-and-seek, always more fun at someone else's house with new hiding opportunities.

Candy!

Don't have a group photo of Halloween costumes: G was Black Widow (Avengers); BB was a ghoul with glowing red eyes; Z a witch; M and M2 princesses; and X Peter Pan / Robin Hood. BB made him a little green cap with feather, but he refused to wear it.

The Modern Toilet... Restaurant

Back to Taipei

Heading back to Taipei, they stopped at a rather large soy operation that made tofu, tofu skins, and soy milk; having some of their soy skin as a snack; and a cockatoo that someone raised from an egg, nine years.

Blueberry Milk Mustache

Success!

I've grown sweet potatoes!!!

Day 2

Fresh papaya, soybean milk, brown rice milk for breakfast. Sharing two pork and two beef mini burgers at the Bistro 302 (Hsinchu) for lunch, where they also found the giant bear.

Day 1

G's first stop is Hsinchu, staying with San YeePoh, who lives in the same building as Er YeePoh (who regaled them with tasty treats). They did some window shopping in the afternoon (to ward off jetlag) and generally tried to stay awake.

Quail Egg

Friends raising quails, let us have half a dozen eggs, which doesn't amount to much, maybe one full chicken egg. Hard to crack too, the membrane is a lot thicker.

Celebrating Sts Peter and Paul

With Chik-Fil-A!

Ice Cream in Waffle Cone

An extra special treat for a special occasion.

Quail Eggs

Tastes like chicken eggs, bite-sized.

11-Layers

Skirt I made for her. Matches one I made for BB.

Lego set from the younger kids.

Ukelele kit. Took us a few days to assemble and stain. Thought she might like to stencil something to the body, but she decided not to. Stringing the thing was an educational experience for me, got some basics off YouTube.

Book of Disney songs from BB.

Eleven-layer jello "cake" (aka monstronsity) that she made herself over the course of two days. Also had failed first jello cake for breakfast – yes, some of us are a little sick of jello right now.

New Year's Food

Happy Chinese New Year! I made almost-gua bao, scallion pancakes, green beans, and dumplings (from frozen that AhPoh made).

Whipping Cream by Hand

Spaghetti Face

Saint Lucy

This year Saint Lucy served a delicious chocolate babka. We liked it so much, we might very well have it again for Christmas morning.

Plucking a Wild Duck

Drew and I at a Field to Fork class on waterfowl by the Dept of Conservation. A presenter discussed bird calls, hunting, identification, and cleaning; area chefs prepped several dishes – a confit on flatbread, duck and pork sausage, duck breast with huckleberry sauce, and a kind of duck jambalaya without the rice (cassoulet) – for class attendants to taste. After class, those who wanted to could pluck and clean a duck, and take it home to eat. And that's what we have, a mallard hen to be precise, in our fridge!

Chocolate Factory

And samples!