The Twin's Golden Birthday

The twins turned 27 on the 27th! Sadly, Vetty wasn't with us, but we had a great time celebrating with Domi.

We surprised Domi with a French restaurant, Max and Julie's. This was recommended by Dan and Doreen. Oh man was it good. Before the restaurant we stopped at Dan and Doreen's for some French champagne (the only kind?) and French cheese roll things (I don't remember what they're called) that Doreen made. Again, so good! I need to get that recipe.





Here are a few of the dishes. Jared got the onion soup and beef tips, Domi got the veal, I got chicken and Nate got a beef stew. Pictures of my and Nate's meals didn't turn out.




After the restaurant we went to Anvil Bar. The beer and drinks were great! I was the DD, so I had a small taste of everyone elses drinks.


Domi once ate an entire pineapple in one sitting, and we still pick on her for it. Here she is trying to eat what looks like a giant pineapple.


And here we are on the way home. A good time was had by all.



Relaxing after a night of fun.

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Thanksgiving 2009

Domi and Nate came down from Austin for the weekend. We went to Thanksgiving dinner at our Aunt Karla's house. We brought deviled eggs (with Nate's homemade mayo), potato rolls, and a salad. #fb

Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving Day. (All of the Thanksgiving pics are Domi's, my camera was dead.)

Nate's mayo.


Jared and me working on the eggs.


Nate and Jared mixing up the eggs. We did one southwest ranch, and one dill mustard. The dill mustard one was so good! I big hit.


The eggs.


I made the dough for the potato rolls in the bread maker, and baked them in the oven. This is the best recipe ever, thanks Mom!



Domi made the salad and salad dressing. So good.


Here is the delicous turkey Uncle Phil made.


Full plates, and full husbands.




Aunt Karla, Domi, and me.


And the Packers won the game!

Holding Jakarta Zoo Animals

The coolest thing about this zoo was getting to hold some baby animals, so that gets its own post! It was $1 per animal, can you believe that?

Here I am with the baby orangutan. I wanted to stay and play, but they're extremely strong. So super cute!

Here is the baby white tiger. I got to play with him for a while. He was like a sleepy puppy!

Here is my driver petting a baby leopard.

And here I am sitting with an adult leopard. So scary, I was very scared. But I figured if someone had been killed doing this, the zoo would have been shut down.

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Jakarta Zoo

I went to a zoo!!! I love zoos, this one is the Taman Safari, and it was amazing. It was only $13.50 for me, my driver, and the van to drive through the entire park.

First, here are the zebras. I fed them carrots from the car.

They had a baby elephant. The elephants thankfully could not walk up to the car.

Monkeys would walk up to the cars, but I didn't have bananas, only carrots.

Here is a doe eyed llama.

Here are the big birds. They didn't want to have anything to do with my carrots either.

This is the hippo begging for carrots.

And here, I actually was able to toss the carrot into its mouth. See it?

The camels couldn't come up to the car either.

Here are a bunch of little deer.

These big guys were scary, and I fed them! Giant tongues.

I loved the horns in this guy.

This black bear didn't come close to the car. I'm not sure what was stopping him though.

And thankfully this chimp couldn't get close to the car.

Here I am feeding another llama type animal. I couldn't read any of the signs, so I don't know what the animals are.

This is the part of the park where you were not supposed to role down your window or stop. There was nothing stopping the big cats from coming up to us!

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Jakarta Food

I made it a point to eat Indonesian food. I should have written down the names of these dishes, but I was told they were very common Indonesian food. I had a soup, meat on a stick with thick, spicy peanut dip, and a fried rice bowl with meat and a fried egg. I very much enjoyed the street food!

And here is a tasty piece of fruit that was served at my meeting. I think it was a parsimon.

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