Happenings and Rainbow Cake

Our life so far back in Bangkok has consisted of swimming a lot, grocery shopping, meeting Dan down at work for lunch (LOVE the Lard Na, Megan now loves the Pad See Ew and Kylie loves the Kao Pad Gai - chicken fried rice), Dan and I going out on 2 Friday night dates (with other couples out to dinner - a Korean Barbeque place and River Treehouse), pedicures (not my favorite design), lots of rain showers, more swimming and Dan traveling. People are slowly trickling back into the area after being gone. It's been nice to be back at church and our new Youth Pastor and his wife will arrive Tuesday night late :) Last night we went to Que Pasa for dinner, ran into our friends on the way in and ate dinner with them!Oh, and Dan bought me flowers for the 1st time in Bangkok! Flowers are really inexpensive here...but you do have to know where to purchase them. For instance, last semester my Bible study leader used to make the table where we met in the basement of our church so cozy with a table runner, candles, candies and 2 dozen pink roses in 2 vases - it was awesome! We finally asked her by the 3rd week why she continued to purchase such expensive flowers and she told us that the roses cost 4B each at a garden stall near here (i.e. approx. $0.11 a rose). She figured she could swing the cost for the ambiance :) Dan found a flower guy downtown the other day and bought this bouquet for 50B or $1.42 :) And it makes me happy to have them in our house!!!


And I think everyone and their mother has made a rainbow cake in some form or another in the past couple of weeks. We've seen it down on at least 5 blogs - and had to try it out for ourselves! We made one last week (although in pastels and not in vivid brights) for Dan returning from a trip! The kids had fun and I think we'll probably be using it for Kylie's birthday (in 6 months)! And it was yummy! You can do the same recipe here! We used a bundt pan and made it with just a regular recipe and icing out of a can :) Cool-Whip is insanely expensive here, so it's just easier to buy a can!