Cakies and a hot date for the birthday boy!

Last Wednesday (August 29th) was David's birthday--our first family celebration here in Asia. I was able to find ingredients for his favorite kind of cake (chocolate with vanilla icing!). Only one problem: I don't have an oven. So what to do? I thought of several options...buy one at a bakery, bake mine in a friend's oven, etc...but I was feeling a little unconventional and decided to cook the batter on the stove like pancakes. So while Dave was at class Wednesday morning, Caleb and I set into our experiment. To our delight, it actually worked, and when David arrived home for lunch he was greeted with a warm meal, a hearty rendition of the birthday song, and hot-off-the-stove dripping-with-yummy-icing birthday "cakies." David thorougly enjoyed them; in fact, we all liked them so well that we declared them our new family birthday tradition!

Well, the celebration continued that night--while Caleb played with some friends, Dave had a date with his two favorite ladies (Susanna and I, of course!). We went downtown for dinner at a Western pizza place and the weather was absolutely gorgeous, so we ate outside. After buying his gift, we went to a movie at the theatre--Shrek 3--the only one playing in English! But it was very enjoyable and we had a great time. It was nice to be able to do something special to celebrate such a special person... =)