Entertaining

On Sunday night we opened the patio window and moved the table outside for a dinner party. We had two families over that we knew from the States and work with here. We had stunning weather and loved having the living room open to the outside. The challenge with dinner parties is the actual dinner. These photos aren't from the night of the party, but they show the extent of our kitchen. Daniel is in front of our fridge. To be fair, there is a small fridge in our garage on the lower floor and we used them both creatively. We were grateful for no leftovers!
Here's our dishwasher...


The lack of equipment (pans, measuring utensils, etc.) and storage space lead us to make the decision not to really do any baking here. We haven't bought flour in 2 1/2 months since we arrived and our small bag of chocolate chips has lasted weeks and weeks. I don't know if that was the right choice or not. Turns out, we miss that habit. The local bakery and grocery store biscuits are satisfying our sweet tooths, but maybe we'll start Christmas cookie baking early this year in East Lansing! That said, the chocolate mousse cake we had for dessert this night from the South Coogee Bakery was very, very yummy and we did have fresh whipped cream courtesy of Daniel.