Africans?

After a long day of shopping and errands we decided to relax with a face mask. I bought this mask mud from my favorite soap store Lush. It looks, smells, and feels like chocolate icing! What's worse is that I probably could safely eat it as it is all natural!

Sorry I can't mail this stuff to my far away friends as it has a short shelf life and requires refridgeration! I wish I could share it though....it is SO wonderful!

Empanadas

The other day Laura wanted me to make empanadas for supper. So we googled a recipe that seemed do-able and started cooking! The recipe was for a Chilean empanada so the filling consisted of ground pork, fried onions, cumin, garlic, hard boiled eggs, and salt & pepper. We also made a jamaican jerk chicken filling with black beans, corn, yellow peppers, onion, and rice! Mmmmm they were so good we made more a couple of days later! This time we also made jalapeno poppers with the leftover dough. It's so nice having someone else think up meals and help execute them!

Snowshoeing

Weekends

A couple of weekends ago, it had been such nice weather that we decided to borrow some snow shoes from the school and go Snowshoeing. There's nowhere interesting to go out here, so we drove to St. Pierre and explored the forest! It was a very nice family outting and a bit of exercise (oww my bum). Afterwards we headed over to my parents' house for dinner and pictures of Cuba. Of course we enjoyed receiving our loot! I got some Cuban coffee beans, a seashell mobile (hangy thing) that was hand painted, and a wooden hand carved frog key chain. The coffee is fabulous by the way!
(Pictures to be posted later)

This last weekend, I went with my friend Cindy to Winnipeg after work. She was dropping her kids off at their dad's and wanted some company for afterwards! We first headed for dinner at ummmm...uh oh....Mooshoo's...LOL I forgot the name...anyhow it's like the freakin 'Gong Show' in there. It's just like Palatal but bigger, noisier, and someone is always banging the gong in appreciation for the guys who fry your food! After dinner we did some light shopping....I managed to find myself two T-shirts ($6.99 each) and one for Ike ($14) at Tommy Hilfiger. I never shop in there but she dragged me in and I was glad for it...those shirts are soooo soft. Afterwards she took me to the Marble Slab Creamery. Oh la la! They make all of their own ice cream there so it's FRESH! What you do is....you choose your ice cream flavor then you choose what you want mixed in it (fruit, cookies, chocolate, gummy bears, marshmallows, nuts, coconut, famous chocolate bars, brownies, sprinkles, .....). Then they spoon it onto this yummy waffle cone that they made there! Soooo delish! I will have to take you there next time Jackie!

Pictures gratefully donated by Google! :) I forgot my camera!