17 Hours to go

And I haven't started packing yet!! I'm not sure what the countdown timer will do when it hits zero, maybe it will start to count up?

So, I shall say goodbye, not sure when I'll get to write next. Pray for me and the team.

See you in 4 weeks :-)

My relationship with cooking

Most of you who know me have probably heard me say more than once that "I'm not good at cooking and I don't like it." Which, for the most part is true, however, every now and then I have a cooking splurge where I spend hours reading recipies and preparing food.

My most successful so far have been:

Christmas Puddings
Pumpkin Scones
Dahl

and hopefully pumpkin & ricotta conchiole and my favourite Greek dish pastitio (both are pasta bake dishes which I prepared tonight to cook tomorrow for lunch with my siblings).

The crazy thing is, I don't actually like pumpkin and it features in two of these dishes!

It took four hours tonight to cook pasta, pumpkin, mince etc and assemble it ready to cook tomorrow, hopefully the time & effort were worth it.

Who's idea was it to visit the Hunter Valley in the Middle of a State Emergency?

Actually, I think it was mine... It's been fairly safe in Cessnock at Mum & Dad's but it's a bit scary to think about what's happening only 30 minutes away (in all directions).

Last night we ate dinner by candle light - not out of ascetic pleasure but out of necessity. The power went out just as we sat down to eat and ironically came back on just as we got into bed.

Mongolia Itinerary

We know where we're going and when now :-)

Check out the Credo Mongolia blog to see our itinerary.

Catching up on the news

Well, it's been a while so I thought I should write something down.
My news so far:
1. My brother is now engaged to Katie, and he didn't tell me :-( but I'm over it now ;- )
2. He also bought a cute little red Alfa Romeo
3. My dad found out he broke his knee when he tripped over a pallet in a hardware shop more than a month ago. (Knees seem to feature a lot in my life lately - one of our Mongolia team members is also having knee trouble)
4. I'm going to Monogolia in just over 3 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5. The Uni semester is coming to an end and I'm going to miss seeing all the Credoites in the next 2 months (although get to hang out with Mongolia team credoites - cool!)
6. I made Dahl for dinner and it was good (restored my faith in lentils)
7. In preparation for painting our lounge room, Stu and I rearranged our house today, we now have a temporary lounge room in the massive space we use as a kitchen/dining/sun room
8. We also pulled the board off the fireplace in our bedroom and found a really old cute gas stove thingy
9. I have been to 4 Nutrimetics parties in the last 2 months (my excuse is my sister became a consultant)
10. I keep waking up early and not being able to go back to sleep because I'm thinking about Mongolia
11. Did I mention I'm going to Mongolia in just over 3 weeks?!