2009 and 2010 anniversaries :)

Anniversaries :)
Last year i didnt get to blog about our outings during our 1st anniversary of our marriage due to flying here and there and so just never got the time to dig out the photos until now. So here are the photos of our anniversaries of 2009 in Nantes and 2010 in KK, Sabah :)
 
2009
Location: Restaurant Cigale
4 Place Graslin
44000 Nantes, France

interior of the restaurant and our photo together

Our dinner

Our bubbles :)

Just after Dinner @ the hotel

The morning after the anniversary Dinner we went for a short tour of Nantes before we head back to Beauvoir to get ready for our departure back to Angola. All in all it was a wonderful time out with each other just to celebrate privately our 1st anniversary :)

2010 
Location: Rasa Ria Resort
Pantai Dalit Beach, Kota Kinabalu 
89208, Malysia

In 2010, we were fortunate enough to be in KK, Sabah during our 2nd wedding anniversary and it was definitely a memorable weekend together and time out from the hustle and bustle of the busy city and just escape to this magnificent paradise and revisit the Orang Utan which we visited during when we were still engaged to each other back then and promised that we will revisit the orang utan sanctuary again and perhaps stay in the resort the next time we went visiting. And finally during the weekend of our 2nd anniversary we had nothing planned but suddenly hubby thought of a brilliant idea which is to revisit the orang utans and stay for the weekend  at the resort and celebrate our 2nd anniversary there and that is exactly what we did. With the help from the staff at Rasa Ria resort we managed to make some arrangement to have a small cake for us during  our buffet dinner at the Hotel Restaurant called Tepi Laut. It was a double celebration as we were also celebrating hubby's birthday at the same time.

so here are our pictures during our stay at the resort :) 

The beautiful beach :)

Our beautiful room :)

Our beach stroll in the evening :)

The night of our anniversry dinner view from our room :)

Cake and the celebration :)


The happy birthday guy with his cake and also the spontaneous birthday singers :)

The day after was our revisit to the Orang Utan Sanctuary which we love very much :) and at 3 months pregnant i was still able to give a small hill a good hike up :)

And here are the little fellows that we could not get enough of looking at them year by year and we promise again to come revisit them gentle hearts and next time it will be three of us :)


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Its That time of the year again...

Well it's that time of the year again where we have to + 1 to our age number and this is the 2nd year i get to celebrate my birthday in Luanda, Angola and i hope next year its not going to be the case and im crossing all my fingers and toes that next year i will be somewhere closer to home :)

Like last year we went out in the evening to celebrate my birthday but this time around because of some unforseen trouble with me, we cant go out for dinner instead lunch is very much preferred and so it is :)

And this was the weekend of my birthday.

Just like last year, mon coeur took me to my favourite resteaurant here in Luanda and thats in a place called ¨Coconuts¨ and it was a nice and refreshing place to be after a long while staying indoors, so it was a wonderful change of scenes and the breeze was fantastic and so was the food!

Our food! i like very much the banana Split but after going thru half of it i just cant go on anymore and thank god hubby is there to finish the dessert up for me :)

The view was just fantastic!

And as for the weekend before my birthday, hubby took me to a chinese restaurant called ¨Taiping¨ and it's definately my kinda taste of food and i especially like my  fluffy prawn fritters. simply yummm!

The food :)

Hubby, enjoying his selection of stuffed terung and sweet sour chicken.

AND finally, as i was busy doing the groceries and was wondering where hubby was suddenly he came with a bunch of flowers for me :) merci beaucoup mon coeur for the flower gift made me smile from ear to ear :)

Besides this, we have another birthday present from above that just made my life more beautiful and enriched with happiness is  when we got these....

YES!! we are finally PREGNANT!! 

and this tops up all the birthday gift i had this year and more so i got my last year birthday wish realised and a prayer answered from the one above!

Big bisous to everyone and May God Bless us all!

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DAY 75 - PORTOBELLO SALSA SPAGHETTI :)

Today i was very much busy doing some work with my studies and was very much engrossed with my reading and stuffs that i didnt noticed that it was late to start dinner....opps!

Then i look in the fridge and all i have is 4 big Portobello Mushrooms and a new freshly baked bread that i made in the morning...was thinking hard what am i going to do in just a short time....


think! think! think!
so i came up with three combined recipe from three countries :)
PORTOBELLOS FARCIS (French)  SPANISH SALSA (Spain) and finally PASTA PUTTANESCA (Italy)

and also not forgetting, the french bread :)

 The french bread

 The stuffed portobello Mushroom with Pasta Puttanesca with the Spanish Salsa Topping! 

A Voila! 
Did all of this in 45 minutes and hubby was really happy and enjoyed the food and wine and he said how can you make something so simple in looks, and taste like it came out from an expensive restaurant and with that i get plenty appreciation and félicitations kisees  from him that night :)


Oh! by the way....this is a vegetarian  too so its really a healthy food :)


À bientôt

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DAY 59 - Just the two of us :)

Finally, after a lazy saturday we up a notch and be un lazy for a few hours and drive ourselves to the
Palmeirinhas

it's about 1 hour or less to reach the Palmeirinhas



I bet you guys cant see this clearly but it is 32°C which is normal for an early morning here in Luanda

And here is kilomètre quatorze



i dont know what happened here just a snap of my feet and mon coeur's fingers :)




on our way....


i like this picture and this is just before we turn to go to Palmeirinhas



Finally we choose this cabana as our picnic spot and inside you can see the sign 1000Kw thats how much these types of cabana is here




Getting ready for the BBQ.
Raymond calling the security guy and me starting to gather some dry wood to start the BBQ going



We bought two tiny cast iron cooker to make our individual soup with chicken /carrots /leeks and water and seasoned with some salt and pepper
And next we had the Chops too :)
The cooking part is easy but the fire making is hard but once it burns it really burns and with my tiny cast iron cooker it only took just 8 minutes to make our chicken soup yummy :)
then the chops just took us roughly 10 minutes
ah finally we had the BBQ going and here is the end product of it :)



While waiting for our BBQ to cook we went swimming and look at the prestine beach :)



and i managed to catch a photo of this eagle hovering close to our picnic area looking for food.



some fun in the sun :)



ahh..food is marvelous and now it's time to have some shut eye :)



and raymond said yes yes yes to the sudgestion of having a short nap under the hut :)



there he goes napping happily :)



reading time...BUT..it's hard to concentrate when you have this in front of you......look at below pic :)



a view of this not too far away from our picnic cabana and wow that is one nice tushies :)




Then for a bit of snap! snap! and togetherness moment before we have to pack up and head home.




If you want to know why we had our hast on during swimming is because of this :) it was 41°C!

finally...our signature shot!

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DAY 53 - Yummy Dinner :)

We had very good salad dinner for the past weeks and this is probably the most we ate because after this we have to wait for at least a week for our next harvest.

The digital farmer himself assembling his yummylicious salad which consist of 
the green salads, tomatoes, hard boiled eggs, cheeze and french dressing of his making :)

Ahh...the finished product :)
 

ready to chow down the salad :)

 ahhh ..look the massacred salad pods :) No worries, they will be right up back the next morning ;)

 

and after salad we had these..seafood paella :) yumm! yumm! indeed :)




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