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Aloha!!  We just wrapped up the Luau that we held to celebrate the finish of our studies of the Pacific Islands.  Everything turned out great!!  Okay, Bean didn't get to make the Macadamia Nut Cream Pie because I'd never scalded milk before and didn't know how to do it.  Both of my cooking mentors (Hi Mom! Hi Carla!) were in time zones where they wouldn't appreciate me calling them to ask how to scald milk, so we skipped that recipe. 

All the other recipes turned out wonderfully and Bean learned a lot about cooking that she didn't know already (like how to skin tomatoes by dunking them into boiling water--why can't I remember what that is called?  I knew it earlier!)  Of course, I mostly forgot to take pictures during the actual feasting, but I did get pictures of Bean cooking and of her mask. I'll try to get the girls to do the hula again in the morning for me.

We got great news today!!  The cat that we have been fostering while her family was back in the states for four months is now a permanent member of OUR family!!!  WOOHOO!!  She is such a great cat!  Her name is Belle and she's a nine-year old gray tabby cat.  When she came to stay with us, she just moved in like she was already part of the family.  Her family realized that, due to the ages of their kids, it might be better for Belle to stay with us permanently, so they offered her to us.  I had been secretly praying for this for the past couple of months, so I am completely THRILLED!  I'll post a picture of her when I get the camera back upstairs.