Thai

For a week now, I've been dying to blog.
Now that I've got the internet up and running ... I'm at a loss as to what to blog about !

ha ha

It was my birthday a couple of weeks ago. Oh that's right, I told you about it already. Remember the flowers that they gave me at work ? Well, included in the card was a voucher for $100 to a great Thai restaurant not far from us. We decided we would use it at some point during the move. That point was Friday night. After moving loads of fragile stuff over in the car Tuesday and Wednesday, then moving the big stuff in the big truck on Thursday, and then cleaning the rental house ALL day Friday ... we were stuffed. We used the voucher and ordered in. We had to use the whole voucher in one hit so here's what we had ....

Uh yeah, that's our coffee table covered with a bath towel that we are eating on !! We had just moved, remember !!!

Spring Rolls, Money Bags, Prawn Parcels, Green Curry, Satay Chicken, Sweet Chili Chicken, Pad Thai, Massaman Curry, Tom Yum Goong and Tom Yum Noodle Soups.

It was a feast. Our celebratory dinner, if you will. And boy did we celebrate. We put on a pot of rice at home. That, with the meals I mentioned above, lasted us for days. Literally. We ate and ate and ate Thai food. It was wonderful. The kids weren't too sure at first, I think this was their first experience with Thai. But we never give them a choice to not try something. Alia ate hers without complaining. Jono LOVED his ! He kept saying ... with surprise in his voice ... 'this is good!' Funny kid !

I plan to do a tour of the house. Eventually. Maybe bit by bit. Maybe in one hit. Maybe in photos. Maybe in video. We'll see. Right now I'm just concentrating on getting everything unpacked and put away !!

We are really enjoying our new house. It's so perfect. Like it was made for us. I love the feel of it. So peaceful. So relaxing. I love the bathtub. I love the layout. I love that I have a laundry room ... not just a washing machine in the garage. I love my gas stove. I love that the oven is raised and that the microwave has a designated 'hole' ! I love that the whole house is fitted with down lights and most of them dim. I love the veggie patch. And the established herb garden. And the patio umbrella. I love the color of the walls. The location of the bedrooms. I love that the ensuite in the master bedroom has cool double doors and the biggest shower ever. And that the shower head detaches from the wall and that it's got one of those massage settings on it. I could go on and on and probably will in the days and weeks and months and years to come !

I'm thankful. Thankful for such a perfect house. For great neighbors that we are getting to know. For a great location. For such a fast, easy and smooth purchase of our first home ! Really, I couldn't have asked for it to go any better than it did !

Well, I think, for not having anything to blog about, I've done enough talking for this one post !

Plus, I really do need to get to bed at a reasonable hour tonight ...

Edited 24 April 2009 ... Little House In The Desert author Roberta Ann commented that I should have included this post in Table Scape Thursday. Of course, I had to go investigate this meme that I've never ever heard of ! Looks fantastic so I'm going to go add my link now ... and then I'll pop round and see what other fantastic table scapes were posted ...