[sam, kelly, me, tiff, annie. it's not gonna get any prettier than this, so love it while it lasts.]
last last sunday was tiff’s 21st birthday!
we, of course, stayed up til midnight the night before, where i wished her happy birthday and give her a celebratory high five, because nothing says "happy birthday!" like slapping somebody's hand?
we woke up, went to church [ummm, maybe a little late], and came home for lunch with our host mom, and she happened to invite her parents to it as well, and manu and her other son [whose name is unbeknownst to me right now aka I don’t remember].
[raisin bread with goat cheese and figs on top. note: i'm a new big fan of figs. i believe they're one of the most over-looked fruits in the world. fact: 67% of statistics are made up on the spot. in other words, i don't know what i'm talking about, but i am in love with figs now. so that's all that matters.]
[cantelope, how i've missed youuuu.]
[chicken, broccoli, squash, and potatoes. stop it!]
it was all fancy and formal feeling with the different courses and the delicious chocolate cake at the end.
for some reason, this cake was soooo good! probably because it was rich and not super sweet, which is just how i looove it.
[kinda reminded me a little of texas sheet cake....but better.]
after that, we had to flee because one of our chinese friends had apparently given us tickets to the chinese opera for tiff’s birthday. yeah, the chinese opera. we had no idea what that would be like [isn’t opera a bit confusing already?], but we knew it’d be a fun experience. anyways, we hop on the metro and head over to the building where it was at. we got a little lost on the way, but then we just saw a few flocks of asians and decided to follow them [you think i’m kidding, but i’m so not].
once we got there, we watched what the other people were doing in order to get in, because we had no idea, and they just handed them their tickets and walked in. so we walk right up and give them our tickets…..and they say something to us in chinese. this is where everything started going downhill. we, of course, can’t speak chinese. they’re trying to ask us how we got our tickets. we couldn’t remember how to say our chinese friend’s name [yikes]. they tell us the tickets are only for one person. it was a disaster. anyways, we finally convince them to let tiff go in, and i just decided to go home and take a nap.
no more than 20 minutes after i get home, tiff get’s home and says that pretty much, it was the craziest experience of her life. she walked in and it was basically a press conference with all these chinese people and it was for some political party or something. not exactly a chinese ballet. she’s determined they were all communists plotting on how to take over the world, but we don’t really have evidenciary support for that one since everything was in chinese. pretty funny though.
later that night, we went to a missionary concert back at the church that the stake was putting on. basically, all the girls wanted to go because we’re all in love with elder dick. he’s a really good singer and has a really nice…..personality, and a cute…..heart.
here’s him singing:
it’s one of my favorite things trying to impersonate his vibrato at about fifteen seconds into the video [when he goes all high and loud].
sad news though: we found out that day he was getting transferred. but don’t worry, we’ve all already friend requested him on facebook. that’ll be a nice surprise for him to come home to.
moving on.
so after the concert, tiff wanted to go out for thai for her birthday, and we were going to go to this place called livingstone, but it was closed [laaaame], so instead, we went back to suan thai [that place me and tiff went to awhile back and shared the green coconut curry and spring rolls with the mint leaves that I loved]. i decided to try something new, which is really hard for me to do because when i fall in love with something, i fall hard. that goes for everything boys, so WATCH OUT.
haha oh gosh, i’m kidding.
okay, anyways, so i decided to get the thai ribs, i wanna call them...? i think they were marinated in the same kind of sauce that you dip the spring rolls in/the sauce you pour over your bun sai gon [sp? i know i’m not spelling it right, but i know that’s how you pronounce it].
[get in my belly right now.]
[kelly giving me one of those bedroom eye looks as always.]
[sam and kelly.]
i was definitely not disappointed, and am even tempted to get them the next time i go [there i go again on my head over heels-ness]. i guess we’ll see. and of course, we had to end the night with some gelato from your friendly neighborhood amorino’s.
[annie is too cute in the back.]
the sad part was that tiff didn’t even want any.
so we weren’t even getting it for “her birthday”.
just for sheer fattiness.
oh well, you win some and you lose some.
[let it be known that whilst eating amorino's, you're always a winner. that is all.]
OK I laughed the entire time that I read this post. Elder Dick is just crazy...really, is that really his name? And his voice is just uhm, how you say, interesting. I was laughing. Maybe its because I didn't marry a singer? who knows. Can you imagine nate singing like that..HAHAHA.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, back to the comment of the actual post...I loved the whole Chinese Opera story which turned out to be a freaky political meeting. This is all just too funny.
Poor guy, I would hate it if my name was that. He has a gorgeous voice and I love that song by Rob Gardner. It's weird to hear it in another language. And I would laugh my butt off if I got to hear Nate singing like that. I probably sound like the female form of that guy!
ReplyDeleteSo I feel bad for your friend that you left her with a bunch of crazy CHinese people. Talk about a bad day. I would have been freaked out. Did you go back to the people who gave you the one ticket and ask for clarification?
I tried figs, and I don't think I like them. I do like how they cut up the cantelope for serving- that's a great idea!