it's sweltering hot today, so I thought I'd spend some time putting up pictures, then go for a walk outside where it looks like it's not so hot!
this was the cheese festival, held at Pike Place Market, it happened a while ago after the norwegian festival and before the zoo. I remember I was meeting people there, and got there before everyone, so went in to this crumpet shop. I was standing in the doorway sort of deciding if I should try one when this woman came in and said "are you thinking about eating here? you should, I make good crumpets, all original!", then she talked to me about the menu and what the different choices are. I thought it was so nice that the owner of the shop would stop and talk to some girl who was hesitating about putting down a whole dollar fifty for a crumpet. I did get one, and it was great, a buttered crumpet with almond butter and feta cheese. this is going to be the new place I take people who come visit me here.
this is Daun'y, my friend and visiting teaching companion. people in our ward, especially the elderly, get us confused for one another. it's the hair.
cindy and nathaniel (sort of)
the cheese festival is arranged such that there are long tents, with people from france and england and other cheese-producing regions setting out plates of cheese. it's hard to get to the plates, there's such a crush of people, but once you do you can find some really very good cheeses to try.
annemarie! and I think that's her fiance josh in the background there. annemarie is our host when Survivor is playing, I go over and watch every week and hang out and drink diet soda, it's fun! they are good hosts.
ok, here's the start of dinner with joseph and the missionaries last friday. I don't know how many of you have had this experience, but it's disconcerting when you're driving along and see the road jack knifed up ahead. this is the bridge they raise when ships need to cross the canal, which is really quite ordinary, but every so often I run into it and it startles me every time.
bored, stuck in the car while the road gets put back in place, taking pictures
more pictures (there were a lot of these)
Lao dinner at joseph's. these are the missionaries. sometimes joseph cooks all the food, this time he ordered out some of it and the Lao missionary who is serving in seattle (joseph knew his family when he was on his Lao speaking mission in San Francisco) cooked some of it. It's always good though no matter what! I've gotten used to eating like this and like the communality of it, but there were two other missionaries at dinner that night and they both sort of didn't know what to do and I think they left hungry. if you ever don't know what to do, just eat!
then, after dinner, we celebrated the missionary from Mexico- his birthday is on june 6th. he requested key lime pie, which neither joseph or I knew how to make, so I made the one cake I cook, which I've made once before, mexican chocolate cake, with lime frosting. it's just a coincidence that that's the name of the cake. the last time I made it was last summer for our last family seattle dinner before my brothers moved to the other coast. baking is apparently a once-a-summer thing. they liked it though! I think the lemon frosting I made last time was better, lime was sort of weird, but what can you do. the pillow is there because when joseph and I were trying to get the candles lit we had the cake sitting on one of the burners and were trying to light a candle on one of the other burners, and it took us a while to figure out that the one under the cake was the one we'd turned on, so the bottom of the cake was completely hot. heh. whups.
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