Purple Pizza Day

Without a whole lot of other perks or forms of entertainment, we get pretty excited about new restaurants opening in our city.  Even better is when the restaurant wants to cater to homesick foreigners as well as introduce fun local foods.

Our neighbors recently opened a new restaurant and it's by far the best place in town now.  They make a pretty stinking amazing Mie Tarik or homemade, pulled noodles that you can watch them make right in front of you.  Since we've eaten there, they've added fajitas, nachos, and burgers to their menu and we hear it's all good.  Can you say "giddy?!"

When we first tried out the new place, we were surprised to see that they have a real, wood-fired pizza oven.  Their pizza has...real cheese!  In a town where the closest thing we've had to a order-out pizza was a weird pizza crust smothered in a sweet ketchup sauce and topped with fake cheese and hot dogs, this is a big deal.  We make pizza at home every week but sometimes, NOT having to make it is a special treat for this tired mama.

Anyway, one of my friends (also a neighbor, and also a member of the family that opened the new restaurant) runs a preschool group in her home, and she invited us to come along for their field trip to the new restaurant to make pizzas.  I was also invited to read a story from the Bible about Prayer. (The preschoolers were studying the letter "P.")  I was happy to oblige, and it made for a fun and different day for the girls and I.  This day was the perfect example of the joys of homeschool blending with the uniqueness of our life overseas.  Love, love, love days like this!

The preschoolers went first and then it was the big kids' turn!  Honestly, my girls and their friends (our teammates' kids) help make pizzas at home all the time.  But still, it was a fun experience and the pizza tasted super-yum!

It's crazy how much things have changed in Palangkaraya since we moved here in 2011.  This town is growing and changing by leaps and bounds.  I often forget how good we really have it here...honestly, we're really, really spoiled!

I mean, c'mon, we can now go to a restaurant and order pizza, nachos, fajitas, or burgers...that actually taste good!  

And their chocolate cake?  Yummmmm....

Purple is the main color of the restaurant...they even dye their pizza crust purple!  While it throws you off a bit at first to eat a purple pizza, it actually tastes just like it should.