WE ARE KUCHEN THIS WEEK

Baking.First of all lets start with baking. Our first recipe was this thing called kuchen (coo-ken) its basically like this apple crumble thing but it's just the crumble and no apple but it has cake mixture and plums in it !YUM YUM! It is really easy to make, the most fun part about it was cutting up the plums because it was like a murder job you had like pull the pip out and then cut up the evidence and then put in a box for the cake.

Next on the list is chocolate lava cake when the chocolate in the middle is supposed to ooze out the sides when you cut it open but when we made them they cooked all the way through though so that kinda sucked. But it still tasted nice. oh and because it was valentines day mum and i put icing sugar and it made a heart shape.

Next on the list is chicken curry with roti bread so we dipped in the chicken curry with the sauce and stuff ohhhhhhhh that was so good. We garnished with parsley it so was goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!!!!!!!!!!!.

Now is our fossil hunting. So we went to Hurupi Stream and we found HEAPS of fossils. Mum calls them mollusks which are 5 TO 7 MILLION YEARS OLD!!!! The pinnacles were JUST AMAZING!!! We climbed up to this lookout which was at least 5km hike up this really steep hill we stopped at least 100 times it was so exhausting. When got up to the top we carved our names in to the wood of the lookout and had a look (that's a good thing to do at a lookout- Chanda) and ate our sandwiches. When we got down to the bottom we looked at the rocks and all the fossils and stuff and we soaked our feet for 10 minutes in a stream. But the funny thing was we were expecting it to be really cold, the stream, but when we put our feet in it was really warm and we figured because it was such a hot day the rocks would be warm so all the rocks along the stream were hot which made the hot water- you get it now?

We also did some research at Te Papa (named after the great PAPA in Canada to be precise in P-E-I) so we did some research and they have this ride thing right and its like this submarine and it does a lot of bumps and shakes you around and that jazz but the cool thing was you got to see these things called black smokers under the water and the funny thing is that Lake Taupo is actually a volcanic crater.  .Our next fossil hunting trip is to Castlepoint were the fossils are younger than the ones at Hurupi Stream and the cool thing is DAD is coming woooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!. Here are some pictures from this week. Sorry to say but we don't have any pictures of the cooking because it was eaten too quickly.