Cny trip part 2

Before the day ended, we went to visit a community farm. Hoping to buy some local grown produce. 

At this community farm, each person is given a plot of land, and they are free to grow what ever veges they like. 

Most people grow veges here as a hobby. When they have a good harvest, more than they could eat, they will sell them in the market or exchange with other growers. 

Here's a pony on the farm!

There are not many ppl selling their produce on the day of our visit. Our only purchase was these organic garlic. $15/500g. 

Next stop, we stop by the famous Kiama blowhole. 

But sadly, the tide was low, and we couldn't see the powerful action of Mother Nature. 

That's the big hole which people gather around to watch. 

For dinner, we purchase some fresh seafood around kiama, and have a seafood feast back in the caravan park. 

To go with it, I made some spaghetti with the organic garlic we bought earlier in the day, and salad to go with the meals.

Haha, high cholesterol meal.

Bye!

Kcan

Chinese New Year getaway

Last Friday, the family had a getaway down the south coast of NSW for a two day one night trip. Eric's dad had arrived from hk for the cny. And it's a family tradition to go away together for a trip during his time here. We did Melbourne trip last year? So this year we are thinking of going down to south coast as I can't take too many holidays from clinic.  

Eric planned a seafood and food harvest trip. Aimed to get fresh oysters from the farm and fesh seafood from the fishing villages. And of course visit some farms to get season fruits and veges. 

We set off at 9.30 am, towards Wollongong. Along the way, we had to go through a national park, with roads so windy, that I got severe car sick. The many snacks that we bought didn't helped much but make it worse. Haha. 

We crossed valleys and mountains.

And finally arrived along the coast!

 

And we drove along the famous sea cliff bridge. It was constructed after the old road was destroyed by landslide. 

Some remains of the old road was visible on the bridge. 

After that, we stop by the first farm to buy some fresh produce. 

Apples! And they do have other things like farm produced wine, honey, ciders, jams....

And we also tried picking raspberries!

Choosing the most dark colored ones.

And pull them out and there it is!

We bought their award winning wine and ciders too, made from the apples and honey collected on their farm. It won the bronze medal! The wine is made from pure honey and yeast, and is a very nice sweet desert wine. 

After loading the car with lots of apples and other produce, we head off to this look out point, which oversees the whole of Wollongong. 

We ended up having lunch at the cafe next to the look out. Good choice!

Look at the big servings of yummy food! We select 4 dishes to share among 5 of us.

Grace chose: Their signature burger with ham off the bone.

Love the real ham which they pan fried like a bacon!

Dad chose the fish meal with mango salsa and salads.

I chose sandwich with ham off the bone. Yumm!

Eric chose the beef chunk pie which comes with super crunchy fries!

Burp!

The inside of the cafe.

The nice window view from our seat.

Thank you for a wonderful meal The Cliff Hanger cafe!

I'll blog about the rest of the journey in the next post. Stay tune!

Kcan

Birthday meal, the simple way

Our simple dinner tonight. 

We wanted to go out for Korean food, but we were too exhausted after church and lunch. So we took a nap till 6pm and boy we were exhausted. 

The summer hot weather affected our appetite quite a bit. And we wanted a light dinner instead of a heavy Korean dinner. So after much tossing and undecessiveness, we opt for a light and easy dinner. 

Dominos pizza, cooked tiger prawns and salad mix. All for just $13!!

And now we are sitting in the living room, watching a movie to go with our food. 

That's the kind of simple dinner we both enjoy. 

Hope you all have a good day too!

Kcan

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to me!

Thank you dear Lord for softening my heart in my twenties, so I can call you my dear Heavenly Father. Thank you dear Lord for your word, guiding me through the many difficult years, being in the twenties. Thank you for providing my many of your sons and daughters as my family members, while I am far away from my own family. 

Thank you dear Lord for dying on the cross for me, and with your power raise back to life, so I can trust in your promise. 

Thank you dear Lord for Eric, who is my support and leader at home. Pray that we both will continue it encourage each other in our future journey together, grow and serve each other by your word. 

I pray that in my thirties, I will see my family become your followers. For Eric and I to continue to trust in your word and have faith. 

Thank you all my dear brothers and sisters for celebrating valentines day and combine birthday celebration today. (Plus Eric's birthday)

Love you all so much!

Kcan

Painting the living room ceiling

It's quite exciting last week, as we started painting the ceiling of the living room. 

Weather had been quite cooling with two whole days of rain. Much a relief to the usual hot summer weather the week before.  Canberra had the coldest summer January night on record!

That was me rolling the paint onto the ceiling. I did the whole. Ceiling of the living room while Eric did one of the bedroom. Oh how sore my arm and necks were after that!

Later that night, we saw the fruit of our labour. 

Nice even coating!

One small steps to completion. =D

Kcan