taking time out to model
livie's stellar manicure administered by me. quinn has a matching manicure...i tried to give him just the black paint, but he wanted the pink, too. we recently have begun to have evidence that quinn might be color blind (no. really. i am serious.), so maybe he thought the pink was green. i dunno. he WANTED it, though. josh seems to have survived the reveal okay ;-p
bug took this serious self portrait
today was super low key. we needed to stay around the apartment to wait for UPS to pick up the bikes and trailer to ship back to texas and for apartment repair folks to repair a toilet. we were fine with having a quiet day, and i daresay we actually enjoyed it. i got the kids out to the playground a couple times for short stints, and that kept them pretty happy.
in other random news, i learned today that my crockpot from home just won't work here. the voltage converters we came with didn't work at all, so josh picked up a special converter last week...a fancy schmancy one that was rather pricey...after two hours, the converter overheated and the whole shebang just shut down. it was a good thing we were home, otherwise, i would have come home to a ruined dinner. i am not sure if i will look for a crockpot here or just go without while we are here. we had crockpot korean-style ribs tonight, and even though the crockpot quit mid-way through the cook time, the ribs were still good...not as tender as they might have been, but still pretty tasty.
random FYI (coz I had a few mins to do some googling) a crockpot is also called a slow cooker there, and according to a forum:
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there's also a store called WingOn that sells them. http://www.wingonet.com/posts/stores (click ENG on top right corner if you need to)
thank you, taz!! this might be our destination this weekend!
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