Peanut Butter and Baked Beans

We have a new cook... his name is Ishak but he goes by Jack (he's Christian). He cooked us a great Thai dinner the other night so he won the "cook out" between him and the other chef. Not really fair considering the other guy only got to cook lunch AND... Ishak had the help of Anoop, his friend and chef but nonetheless, we had to choose and we chose Jack (the name didn't hurt).

Today for lunch we all sat down famished and the boys jumped into the sandwiches on the table. I know sandwiches are a new concept for Jack the chef because the one time he made them they were triple decker (a slice of bread between each ingredient). These were once again triple decker but SURPRISE - no jelly - just mashed up baked beans! I think he couldn't find the jelly (not sure if he knows what it is) so he grabbed one of my precious cans of baked beans (hard to find) and spread them all over the bread. We all laughed (not at our chef but at the experience) and then I spent a little time in the kitchen with the new guy. The English barrier is huge this time and will prove to be a bigger challenge.

The journey right?

It's very hot here. 107 -110 daily. The hours between 11/12 to 4 are indoor hours and really it's best if we wait until after 5 to go back outside. It's a lot of togetherness. I'm still amazed at the hours the boys widdle away playing Lego. They've created a hierarchy of important peices and they trade them etc.. to build things they can then battle with (sounds like Pokemon now that I think of it). Jack has built some really cool stuff (picture above).

I'm going to go try to put a weather widget on my blog page to track the weather between AA and here - requires some HTML stuff I'm not so keen on... wish me luck.