June oh June!

So Joan and I went out to eat for the June-abrations. You know, all those things in June. Joan's birthday, our aniversary, Mothers Day, fathers day, etc.

We went to a place called El Gardine next to Ying Yang. Guess what? It wasn't FastMex. It wasn't TexMex, and it certainly WASN'T RexMex. Not a drop of Ranch Dressing in site!

The rice had some sort of herb mixture I couldn't identify. And it didn't have that tomato red stuff in it either. It was great!

The refrieds were made with black beans and I couldn't identify those spices either. They were also fantastic!

With all of this the greatest was yet to come. The flan. I have had crem broule in many very nice restaurants. Nothing even came close to the flan we had that night. Joan said it was the best she had ever had as well.

It was a great, wonderful suprise.

Everybody is busy here reading something on their mobile device except Elijah who is busy making rope out of willow bark. He plans on leaving for his survival trip again this wednesday. They still haven't started fire without matches.

Pop is in pain more so than usual but he made it through all his meetings today by gritting his teeth and getting on with it.

I had a quiet birthday with just Pop and I going to El Garden for dinner. It was really good and the flan was to die for it was that good. Then Saturday we did barbecue for the whole family who could get here. Pop made his baby back rib specialty and we barbecued the rest of the steaks. Looks like they didn't last all summer after all.

We got a new bishopric today. After more than five years Bishop Stoddard gets to rest. Our new bishop is Mark Bennion.

Christian Shelley will be having surgery soon to replace his broken discs with spacers. He finally got to see the neurosurgeon who was able to tell him what was wrong and have a solution. Hopefully he'll be knocking doors in the fall.

Lots of good talks from conference. I guess I'll start posting about them again.