visitors, dinner guests and fly fishing lessons

Hi all,

We've had a busy week filled with guests. We went to Frisbee on Wednesday. (Yes, Dave is finally playing again, albeit very carefully and unbelievably slowly. But still, very excited to be back out.) Anyway, there were some random ultimate players from Colorado traveling through town that had stopped by to play pickup. We ended up inviting the three of them back to stay at our place while they were in town. They were already paid in at the holiday park for Wednesday night but came over and stayed Thursday and Friday night.

We had our friends Tom and Frankie over for dinner on Thursday night. They brought over some wine and a fantastic Coconut, banana nut cake. Yum! We cooked up a veggie burger recipe that we found on the web that turned out fantastic. Bangkok bean burgers with peanut cilantro sauce and a side of japanese style wilted spinach with soy sauce, sugar and sesame oil. Good stuff, definitely recommended.

Tom, Frankie and Dave

Anyway, the three frisbee players (Hayden, Graham and Lindsay from Denver) came over right about the end of our dinner with Tom and were super nice. They even did our dishes from our dinner party with Tom and Frankie. Sweet!! The three of them stayed through to Saturday morning and cooked us a delicious dinner friday night of Orzo with avocado, tomato, lemon zest and a bunch of other stuff that I wish I written down. Graham was flying back to Denver Saturday to go back to school and Hayden and Lindsay were continuing up the coast and around the north island for the next 6 weeks. If anyone out there spots any of these three on the road be sure to invite them over. Yay, first guests!

Hayden, Lindsay, Graham and Dave

Saturday morning, we went down to the farmers market and bought way too much to fit in the fridge (as we always seem to do) . Then Dave went off to the second of his three fly fishing classes. I learned some more knots, how to cast left handed (can't wait to quote princess bride while trying to catch fish left handed), and more of the surprisingly technical art of fly fishing. I have one more class on Monday. Thanks to Andrea for a most excellent Christmas present!

Best wishes to all,
Dave and Andrea