On Monday, February 21 is was Nancy's 21st birthday!! After a busy day at school with lots of teaching, we Nancy and I came home and made a pineapple topping cake for her birthday. We had to make it with vanilla cake mix since yellow cake mix doesn't exist here. There is also no vanilla pudding here, so we had to use the vanilla frosting mix that came with the cake and add cream cheese to it. Then we had to open the cans of pineapple with a knife and scissors because we don't have a can opener and had to whip the whipping cream by hand since there is no cool whip over here and we didn't have a blender. It was a long crazy process changing the recipe in so many ways, but it turned out really well. I really liked the cake and so did Paea and Cooper.
After making the cake and something for dinner, Paea and Cooper took us to Bethells beach to have a picnic on the beach for FHE and Nancy's birthday. The drive up there was 30minutes of driving basically through a rain forest. It was absolutely gorgeous. We got to the beach and as soon as I stepped out of the car, I saw a rainbow over the sand and rocks. It was so gorgeous. Bethells is a black sand beach and these is quite a bit of walking in the sand before you get to the beach, but the sand felt so nice beneath my toes. That is one of my favorite feelings. Nancy and I were amazed with how gorgeous the beach was and getting there right at sunset made it just perfect. We ran up to the water and jumped in the puddles that led to the water form the rain earlier in the day. It was so much fun and we got so many good pictures that would look great on a postcard. After walking through the beach, Nancy and I went to explore the caves on the beach. It was so much fun and definitely the most gorgeous beach ever!
We sat down on the beach and had a very nice picnic. Paea and Cooper had a blast as well and he was in and out of the water running up and down the beach. so fun. While we were eating we watched the one or two surfers that were there, but we were basically the only people on the beach and had it all to ourselves. It was just a perfect sunset picnic on the beach. After the sun went down there was a gorgeous mist over the ocean and through the caves. Everywhere I looked on the beach, it was just gorgeous. I couldn't have pictured a better way to spend a Monday night in February. The only way it could have been better was if it had been my family at the beach with me.
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