This year our valentine's day was lovely, albeit a bit non-traditional. As usual, my "gift" was a cherry hostess pie. I gave T-rav a box of his favorite cereal and some peach gummy rings. We don't usually spend more than $4 on presents for each other. I've gotten a hostess pie for the past 7 years, including the year that brother Matt stepped on it with his size 27 feet. I can't remember if I ate it anyway...
We spent the evening with some of T-rav's old refugees from Bhutan/Nepal. We played "hide and find" with the kids, chatted with the Pundit (the local Hindu leader), danced to a favorite Nepali song, and ate the most delicious Nepali food you'll ever have. They fed us rice with lentils and mutton, carrots, and cucumbers. We ate with our hands (they gave us the option of silverware, but we said we wanted to do it their way) and discovered that using your thumb to shovel the food into into your mouth is much more effective than just slurping food off your fingers.
We topped off the night with the movie Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress about rural China during the 70s. Two boys from the city are sent to be "re-educated" in the ways of chairman Mao, but instead fall in love with a local girl while reading her Western novels.
How was your day?
5 comments:
That film sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out.
And I'm glad you got your Hostess pie. I can't imagine T-rav giving you anything else.
Our Valentine's Day date was this past Saturday - we went and heard Samuel Barber's violin concerto at the symphony. The soloist was only 23 or 24 years old - and he was amazing. You would have loved it. Plus, you would have loved the Seattle Symphony because of the symphony patrons. Nobody applauds between symphonic movements, like they do in Utah. :)
Oh sounds fascinating!
We spent Fri-Sat at Niagara Falls and ate churrasco yumm and then we each spent $5 at the casino hahaha Sunday grama and grampa came for dinner....I tried to make petit gateaus (kind of like lava cakes but much easier) but I over cooked them so they didnt have a lot of lava :( We watched the time traveler's wife too..it was a nice day...our first valentine's day in the US :)
There is a movie from the book!? I must find it. That sounds like great Valentines day!
There's a book about Balzac and a Chinese Seamstress? I must read it!
When/Where? did I step on your pie?
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