Downtown Tooele

Today was our day off so Lindsey and I decided to head in to our madre's work and well, vote. We voted for the new city council (cough cough our dad cough cough) and then took Mom to lunch at Niks- an AMAZING Greek restaurant. We all had tasty sandwiches and lemon rice. My sandwich was Genoa Salami. Delish. Then we stopped at some cute perfume/gift shop stores along Vine Street. Mom went back to work and Lindsey and I went to Sweet Lizzy's candy store and splurged...Then we went to a clothing store called The Modish Place where I met the owner who came straight from the Philippines!!! Crazy eh? We chatted about her country and it's world famous mangoes and coconut pies. Then she invited me over for some Filipino food sometime. I bought two skirts for my mish and a FAB chest with Chinese writing on all sides. It was a great day! Good Old Tooele strikes again!



Isn't this thing amazing!?



Snow Cones and Blue Grass

Friday night concerts in the park are a great way to unwind from the hectic week. Last night we enjoyed some great blue grass music by a group called the Red Desert Ramblers, and sipped on fresh strawberry and pina colada snow cones. It was bliss. 

Missing

Today I realized just how much I am going to miss my friends while I am on my mission. I am going to especially miss my interior design friends because they will all be seniors when I come back :( Buuuut....I know I am doing the right thing and I'll just have to wait 18 months to see them again. I love you all.

Man-Go



mmmmmmmm.....



Fact: Mangoes are my favorite fruit. It has recently been decided.

Fact: Today I had possibly the best, most delicious and juicy mango of my life. So juicy, in fact that I  didn't even care that the juice was running down my arms as I hovered over the kitchen sink.

 Fact: I was SOOO-count them 3 Os!!!- Excited to hear from my good pal Austin that mangoes are very popular in the Philippines and you can get huge suckers for real low cheap! Who know, maybe for even like...one money!!! HOLLAR!!!


SOOOOOO  GOOOOOD!



Fact: The BEST way to eat a mango, besides devouring it over the sink, is to eat it over sticky rice covered in coconut milk. (Menu item #1 on the menu at The Thai  House  in Tooele) (yes, I'm a regular there...)

 To my left here you can find a lovely little diagram showing the proper way to cut a mango. (I also learned how to do this at my nifty produce job. No big deal.

• Step Uno: Slice neatly along pit
• Step 2: Score mango vertically
• Step Next: Score mango horizontally completing a checkerboard look
• Step Last: Turn peel inside out to get cute little mango squares!

 

Holy! Who knew there were THAT many different types of mangoes!!?!??!?

Also, who knows if it's MANGOS, or MANGOES???

(my spellcheck says mangoes, but who really knows?)

Annnnnd if you're as obsessed with mangoes as I am, feel free to check out this neato website I found!

Farmer's Market

Today my fam went to the Salt Lake City Farmer's Market. There was a wide range of craft booths, photography booths, and about 957 homemade soap booths. I mean seriously Utahns. Is there really nothing else to do in this word but make soap!? Holy.

I was a little bit more cautious with spending my mullah today because firstly I'm going on a mission so I need to save, and secondly I am going on a mission so I don't need to buy 47 bars of soap. Although the Philippines is a sweaty place......

Anywho...the FM provided a great deal of excellent people watching including many granola types, hippies, old fat people in jazzys, and cuuuute little kids playing tiny instruments. I know it's cliche to say, but this little guy below stole my heart. His little squeaky violin was the cutest thing EVER!

Other highlights of our day included DELISH strawberry lemonade of which I sipped using possibly the biggest straw known to mankind, snapping shots of the CUTEST Bulldog ever , beautiful flowers, unique musicians and performers, and noticing the vendors of Salt Lake City cannot spell worth a rats tush. Do  enjoy these spelling mistakes and for more laughs visit here!

Mmmm... I love lemens.

I like artichokes, but arlichocks sound sketchy....

I love me some cantaloupe. 

She was presh!!! I mean just LOOK at that tongue!

These guys were so cute. I especially loved the drum set. 

This guy was pretty dang good!

One money perhaps?  Give or take...

Delish lemonade

Largo straw people!

Apparently tie dye is back in style

Guten Tag!

Woah it has been so long since my last post that I sort of forgot the name of my blog...oooops...but luckily Google knew what I was searching for and led me in the right direction.

So...today as part of my family's "staycation" we went into SLC to a little German deli called Siegfried's. Needless to say, the food was FABTAB! I love German food, and since Linds served her mish there she was able to translate the menu for us all. I do however, know that rotkohl (amazing red cabbage cooked in lots of other ingredients) is one of my FAVS along with Spaetzle (thick noodles covered in brown gravy). I got extra excited when I saw they had marzipan cake on the menu and most def had to have a slice. You can prob tell from the picture below that I speedily devoured that sucker in record time.

After a sehr gut lunch (look at me being all bi-lingual) we went to this strange store called the EMP store...or maybe it was called EMS...either way it was basically a giant DI only everything was new-ish. I think the products come from loads that were damaged on trucks or something like that because everything was REALLY cheap, and expired- like seriously what joint would sell yogurt that had expired 2 months ago??? Definitely Josie-Grossie. I did, however, find The Wedding Singer and Bride Wars brand new, for like $3 a piece. What a steal!

After the SLC adventure we returned to good old Tooele where we went to see Cowboys and Aliens, or as my Mother called it, "Cowboys and Indians." Apparently she was a tad confused with what movie we were actually seeing. Anywho...it was a really great movie and the fact that Daniel Craig is the star (who is veeery easy on the eyes) only makes it more of a great flick. Whelp the day is coming to an end, so please do enjoy these photos from my day.

We're SOOOO excited to eat German food!

Mom is happy, Dad is confused at the menu...

Some lovely flags. 

Marzipan cake=party in my MOUTH

Das Menu.

Auf Wiedersehen!!!!

PAT

NBD (no big deal) or anything but this is where I'm going to be chillin for 18 months.
 (hint* this is in the PHILIPPINES)
  



Also PAT is CTR in Tagalog. NBD.