19 July 2005

The weekend

I was just writing to Maria about the weekend so I thought I would 'borrow' from what I wrote to her and paste it in here! We had a nice but busy time and now we are back at the hotel and focusing in on the house-finding project... (more on that later probably once we are closer to making a decision)
It was nice to have 3 nights at home this weekend (even though Jamie had to work til 10pm so we didn’t get home until midnight on Friday). It was so VERY hot at home though (I think we are getting a little too used to the air-conditioned hotel!) and when we got there it was 87 F - that's over 30 deg C in the house! It was such a humid weekend so we were feeling quite drenched whenever we moved around. Thankfully we have a little air conditioner in the bedroom as well as a ceiling fan. After church we did the usual lunch thing with the crowd (yes Jim & Beckys house has an airconditioner!) until around 6pm then went home for a while before going out for Indian around 9pm but the food wasn’t that good (not like I've had in Auckland, Sydney or London anyway), but maybe I just don’t know what to order here. The lentils were very pureed and quite sweet, the cottage cheese spinach dish had the cheese mushed in it rather than in squares and was quite rich and the korma was more tomato than creamy, although it was nicely spiced. But it was nice to get the general gist of the flavours as it has been so long since I had Indian food! The entrée (appetizer) samosas were very yummy and the mango chutney was phenomenal though. I was glad that we went even though Indian is not exactly Jamie's favourite option. On Sunday we went to a friends house who was having a candle-lite party (same kind of concept as Tupperware but candles) so we purchased quite a few. Then we were to meet someone at the airport and were going to take her some hummus and tabouli to snack on (aeroplanes here very rarely provide food - even on my 5-hour to LA you only had the option of buying a sandwhich!!) but her plane was delayed and so she didn’t have time to come through security and see us so we went to the Lebanese restaurant anyway and had hummus etc in her honour which was most delicious. Monday morning we went to visit Jamie's parents on our way back here to the hotel in Saginaw (it's not really on the way - it's about 90 minutes in a different direction to get there and then a different 90 min drive to get back here!) but at least we got to see them as we had not visited for 3-4 weeks.
So now we are back and installed again. Next week we will not be here, we will be in Tawas as Jamie works there for a week and the company has a condo near the Lake Huron that we get to stay at. So that will be a change of scenery! I'm not sure if we have internet, and less sure whether there are internet cafes so we may not be able to update the blog until we are back.

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