I Could Lie

And say that Andrew and I have been having some mad, crazy adventures since my parents left but it's just not true. In fact, we've sadly gotten back into the swing of things at work and fallen into our usual routine, although it does now include a Tudors episode most evenings.

Thursday night we did go on a double date (how cute) with our friends to see this new movie called Oranges and Sunshine. The movie is by and about this woman, Margaret Humphreys, a social worker in the UK in the 1980s. She runs a support group for adults who were adopted as children and comes to learn about children who were sent on their own to Australia. Once she begins investigating she discovers that many of these children were told that their parents had died when they hadn't, or that they didn't have any family and that was why they were sent away. Once in Australia they were sent to children's homes/missions and depending on where they were some were told around the age of 15 that they had to pay back the mission for being raised. It was a really interesting movie and I would highly recommend it, it's just so interesting what happened.

Since we were busy Thursday I decided to spend Saturday cooking up a nice Tex-Mex meal for Cinco De Mayo. It was great to spend the day puttering around in the kitchen and having a meal that's completely fresh and made from scratch was great. Paul, Judy and Kate came over to join us and it was a really nice evening. We started with a variation of Jess' fruit salsa with cinnamon and sugar tortilla chips, Paul made vegetable empanadas and we had a round of drinks. Dinner was homemade flour tortilla's (I added some allspice and mexican chili spices for some extra flavor) with red onions marinated with lime juice and ranchero pork (slow cooked for 5+ hours) and another round of drinks, this time some Firefly Iced Tea Vodka. We finished with warm sopapilla's drizzled in honey, the perfect end to any day. I would have pictures of it all but it smelled so good we ate it all so quickly, maybe next time.

This morning we got up and headed to Paul and Judy's so Andrew could practice the omlete making techniques that Dad taught him, they turned out really good and we spent some time sitting in the sun and playing with the puppies after eating. Other then that, we've got nothing so I'm going to leave it there and learn to take more photos so this blog is a bit more lively.