Dinner... and other things

 So I am about to tell you about the most exceptional dinner I have ever had under the most improv cooking. Seriously, me and Tyler want to write a book on improv and low budget cooking, we did not have a lot to work with here! So we made chicken cordon blues with grilled asparagus and a dinner roll. See the assembly line goin on on all of our counter space, haha As you can see we dont have a meat tenderizer or plastic wrap, so im beating the chicken with a hammer in a plastic bag :) also we didnt have tooth pics to pin together the stuffed chicken so tyler found some inscence sticks and broke off the wood ends to stick in the chicken! We then browned them on our hot plate, and transfered them into our Toaster Oven! haha

anyway, as you can see it all turned out very good, best meal we have made yet! Notice the Naked Winery bottle we had :) complements to my mom for shipping our bottle we got in Hood River over to us :)

In other news, so the only craft/art supply store over here is ace Hardware which has a craft section, boo They dont carry my paint I use (golden acrylics) and the canvases are super expensive! And this is the ONLY art store in Kona! So, the universe came together and devised a plan for my predicament. There happens to be this guy at the market who sells slices of beautiful Koa wood. So we got to talking and he is going to start giving me the wood for free, and let me sand it, and then I will in turn paint on the wood and then he will take it back and sell it for me at the market! perfect collaboration! So I was down at the market getting a piece of wood and this lady was buying a really nice $50 piece of wood for her husbands workshop to make a sign. And we got to talking and she is going to commission me to paint and or/woodburn a sign out of the wood :) So i went out and got a wood burner also to work on projects and paintings :) 

The other day i bought a blender for 5 bucks at our Kona salvation army :) (yes we are very thrifty) now we can start making tropical fruit smoothies, yumm Tyler made a passionfruit smoothie today :)

We are looking into getting some Kayaks :) I was talking to this huge outdoorsman at my work who was telling me all about how he Kayaks all along the Hawaiian coast finding amazing beaches that are impossible to get to by foot and havent been touched in probably months! plus since we live right across form the ocean we could just load it in right there! So that is a really exciting prospect! :) Samantha and Sarah are coming to visit in less than 2 months! So So excited to see me friends! That really has been the hardest part about living over here, is missing all my friends :(  

But we do have someone to celebrate Thanksgiving with! So my friends Dale and Sandi Johnson from persimmon at home, just happen to be vacationing near Kona with their kids who are all our age and they invited us to their vacation home for Thanksgiving dinner! So awesome! 

Well Tyler has been downloading movies like crazy and I think we are finally going to watch one, I just had to talk about our dinner adventures :) 

LOVES

LAUR