Q and his friend A staring up into the sky to see the show.
Q with a sparkler
Q and A with bottle rockets
Q running around
with a sparkler.Fireworks! (Yes we can do the big stuff in Washington).
Saturday, July 5, 2008
4th of July
Last night we did our annual 4th of July festivities with the cul-de-sac. We bbq'd over at the neighbors house and had great burgers and hot dogs... and a new dessert that we'd never had called fruit pizza. It basically has sugar cookie on the bottom as the crust, vanilla pudding on top of the crust, and then fresh fruit tops the whole thing off. I wasn't sure about trying it, but it ended up being really good! For the fresh fruit our neighbor used strawberries, kiwi and mandarin oranges. I would probably replace the oranges with something else, but the strawberries and kiwi were the perfect flavor to go with the cookie and yogurt. The pictures I got aren't that great because it was so dark, but I tried:
Q and his friend A staring up into the sky to see the show.
Q with a sparkler
Q and A with bottle rockets
Q running around
with a sparkler.
Fireworks! (Yes we can do the big stuff in Washington).
Q and his friend A staring up into the sky to see the show.
Q with a sparkler
Q and A with bottle rockets
Q running around
with a sparkler.Fireworks! (Yes we can do the big stuff in Washington).
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How fun....! :) But now I"m confused.... where are you? Texas or Washington? (and for the full Ollie story, drop me an email - traci @ gotcorgi (dot com))
Ok, living down under (well in New Zealand for those who may want to think I am refering to Aussie world) I would like to clear up our little American misconception on the word 'kiwi'.
Many of us love to think that a kiwi is a lovely little green fruit, that we enjoy from time to time. BUT go to New Zealand and people look at you like you are CRAZY! if you refer to this sweet little fruit as just plain 'kiwi.'
Why you might ask? Well there are 3 different meanings to 'kiwi':
1. Kiwifruit - yes, the fruit is part of the actual name, and is sadly dropped when outside of its native land. (Don't you think this makes leaving even worse on these poor fruit? I bet they miss their mothers.)
2. Kiwi - This is a native bird, a little brown guy, with a big body, who is nocturnal (aka. A night time boogie addict - he likes his night parties and sleeps over the day in order to party some more.) He resemebles the fruit as both are small, brown and furry on the outside (well I don't know about the birds inside, but we won't go there.)
3. Kiwi - a native New Zealander - one who lives in New Zealand. Not usually confused with the fruit, because, unless you are a canabal, you don't eat people.
So for the future... When one asks "Can I have some of that great looking kiwi?" (ok, bad example, that could refer to the hot native New Zealander kiwi.)
How about then... "I had kiwi for dessert last night." Ok, now lets not get kinky and lets take that as it is or I could be here all night. A native NZer (New Zealander) would think you were eating a bird for dessert and would be shocked at you eating their national bird who is going into extinction. In fact, they may call the national park rangers or someone like that to take you away for bird inhumanity.
Secondly, I hear it doesn't taste that good either- not that anyone knows, with them being endangered or anything.
So if you are at the zoo, you may then hear the phrase "aw, what an interesting looking kiwi" (again, probably the bird, not usually one of the inhabitants of the country.)
And well we already covered the New Zealand guys (and as I am a girl and very biased by marrying a genuine kiwi myself, the guys are hot.)
Ok, enjoy the new found knowledge that you have gained and go forward empowering others to learn and properly use the terms 'kiwi or kiwifruit.'
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