Slug bug blue!

While we stayed with some friends near Seattle on our journey to Ecuador, they taught us how to play “Slug bug”. The idea is that if you spot the bug first and say it’s colour, i.e. slug bug blue, you get to slug the other the person, of course if you forget to say “No slugs back”, you´ll get one right back at you.

Well this game has caught on in our home and thankfully, without the slugs! Here is Mattias, yet again overjoyed at seeing yet another bug, especially a blue one!!

Your bricks are here

Have you ever wondered what the benefits are of getting bricks delivered in pallets? Here a good reason. Think about the guys who have to pick all these up and stack them prior to moving them around the worksite.

I wonder how many people would write to their local member if this happened down the street from where you live.

La fiesta italiana

Here we are enjoying a 'family' feast with our team mates. Before we left Australia, John got a hold of the 'My family feast' series and thought it would be fun to watch an episode together and then eat the food they show (pending availability of ingredients of course). So, last Saturday we had our first such feast - italian. It was pretty good I think - we made tomato sauce (passata) out of 20kg of tomatoes, stuffed eggplant, meatballs and focaccia. Our dessert lacked authenticity - no gelato in our neck of the woods and not enough energy to have a go at making it. Oh, to be around the corner once again from Pure Gelato, now that would be bliss.