July 21, 2012:
As a way to say "THANK YOU!!!" to our Chinese friends who helped Mark get our homemade Chinese smoker built we invited them over for a home cooked meal….featuring smoked RIBS and ice cream!!!
David and Lynn are both Deere employees and they're also a husband and wife team. And they're HILARIOUS and lots of fun to hang out with!!! And…apparently they both loved eating smoked ribs while visiting the USA on business trips. They happily helped Mark get the smoker built so that we could make ribs for them! ;-)
While the ribs are smoking we got busy cranking the ice cream maker. EVERYONE who wants to eat ice cream has to take a turn cranking the ice cream. Those are the rules and we stick by them! No cranking; no ice cream. Period.
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This is our first batch of homemade ice cream in China. We're making cookies and cream (using Oreos). Mmmmmmmmm!!!!!
A happy meal with great friends:
…followed by cookies and cream ice cream and brownies. Oh My! We were concerned that our Chinese friends might not like the ice cream and brownies but we had nothing to be afraid of! David and Lynn seemed to really enjoy it, and we certainly did too!!!
After dinner and our dessert treats we played a fun round of Apples to Apples Jr. game. It was a blast for all of us! Definitely a fun way to end the evening and teach our friends a little about our culture and lingo.
Thanks so much for everything, David and Lynn! I do hope you'll come over again!!!!