THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER

We met Geoff and Nick in Mackay one Saturday as they had kindly driven up a trailer full of stuff for us.

Unpacking the trailer - very exciting!!

Unpacking the furniture

Unpacking the kitchen!

Mangos!! Its coming into mango season and everyone has tree's here. Apparently in a few weeks time everyone has Mangos coming out of there ears, they cut them up and freeze them for smoothies etc and also dehydrate them and make dried Mango - mmmm can't wait!

YUM!!

Last Saturday Melinda and I went to Adrienne's baby shower that one of her work friends organised.

Guess how many jelly beans are in the bottle.....

Cute mini cupcakes

Adrienne opening her presents

She got some awesome stuff

Melinda, Adrienne and I

Rob and Mel had us out for 'steam boat' the other night. They also had a couple from Canada visiting them - Dale and June (not sure of there last name)

The meat - sweat and sour beef, chicken satay, garlic, ginger and chilli beef and coconut and kafa leaves. (Note the 'fishing net' sitting on the place mat)

So this bowl sits in the middle of the table and underneath it is a flame heating the beef broth which is in the bowl. So what you do is fill your 'fishing net' with your choice of marinated meat and veges and pop it into the broth and it cooks it. Once its cooked you then dump it onto your plate of rice and then fill your net up again with another choice of   meat.  At the end of the night you drink the broth and its SO tasty as all the marinades have mixed together etc. You wouldn't want to do this with any boring or anti social visitors as it's a very slow process and makes for a long night of talking and eating. It's fun though and I really enjoyed it, although Reon was very impatient and wanted to just dump everything in and eat, typical male! ;-)