Today we slept in a bit (we're starting to really feel the "go go go" pace of everything haha), and got ready for church. We went to the church house across the parking lot from the temple, so we were able to see that again (or see it for the first time for those that weren't able to go with us the other day). It was a wonderful spirit there, and we had a couple people follow us out of the chapel. They had heard us conversing and wanted to know where we were from. One of them served her mission in Otto, WY and knew some mutual friends of ours! Small world! They offered to take photos of our group, and then talked about their own world travels. It was so fun chatting with them!
After that, we made our way over to the orchards and produce market. It was like Mortal Kombat in there!! HOLY COW!! There was a guy that wanted to get past me and my trolley and kept "hitting" me with his cart to let me know. I turned around and gave him the stink eye while he tried to tell me off. After he finally looked around me and noticed that I wasn't the one blocking things up (not the foreigner's fault LOL), he backed off. It was completely insane in there! But, the produce selection was worth it! We got quite the spread to try out for our New Year's Eve festivities! (**sorry for the blurry pics they were screen grabs from a video that was taken of the place - it was seriously HUGE**)
We took our treasured finds home and then got ready for the beach. This was the most anticipated event for the littles! Goodness, they kept hurrying us along and wanting us to hurry (we were apparently being too slow for their liking haha).
After the beach, we came back and prepared for our NYE feast - we were going to go out and watch fireworks, but everyone was so tired that we stayed in and celebrated here with food and sparklers. We tried Wallaby steaks and Kangaroo steaks. These were different than the sausages we had the other day. It was very dark meat, the wallaby was more grainy in texture (similar to liver, better flavor though), and the kangaroo meat tasted better overall and had a better texture to it.
Then we stayed up (or attempted to...or went to bed early...) and watched movies until the New Year, and then went to bed. Such a fun day!
I love that you ran into people who know the same people you do. Small world for sure.
ReplyDeleteThat’s so crazy how you guys have had different types of foods too. I like how you’ve described it all. I like to try exotic foods when I travel but I don’t know about these. Haha.