Holy Moses!!
Wow, Ata -- what an experience! I am riveted by your accounts, so keep them coming! I can empathize with your tourist-trap stories, as our experience in parts of SE Asia were similar. There are only so many ways to politely say "no, thank you" until you are forced to scream at them "NO!" and run away. :) I LOVE your story about the guy wanting to sell you "nothing" (I hear you can buy that on Amazon.com too!).
Ian says that his co-worker/friend Mike will be at your place on Sunday (tomorrow morning) -- don't sweat being a tour guide. Just take them for a walk around the cobbled streets of downtown, by the river, up to the palace, etc. Go out to lunch and call it good! They're probably getting into tourist overload and will relish some down-time -- remember, they're on vacation! :)
It's Saturday morning here and I am pretty sure I have become mom, in her hey-day. Remember how she'd be up at the crack of dawn? And on a Saturday morning she'd be talking to Aunt Joann on the phone? Well, regardless of the time I go to bed, and despite pulling the shades down and the curtains across, here I am at 6:30am typing to you guys. Ian puts up with me talking to him for about 30 min then politely kicks me out of bed.
We have a Cinco de Mayo party to go to tonight -- do you all remember my friend Marcie from residency? She's very lively, brown hair, really sweet; she was one of the two greeters at my wedding? Anyway, her b-day is today and every year she throws herself a party. She's originally from Texas so her parents Fed-Ex a huge box of tamales up for the party (she's vegetarian so we get "bean and cheese" and chicken). Her party has grown each year so she's farmed out some of the chores and Ian and I are in charge of making "horchata" -- Mike, help me out here: it's some type of rice drink in which rice has to be soaked overnight, then you add vanilla, sugar, and cinnamon. I have no idea how it's going to turn out so am hoping that whoever is in charge of margaritas is in better shape!
We have some additional gardening to do this weekend. Last Sunday we took a poll of our neighbors (whoever happened to pass in front of our house) and decided to pull out a big tree that was by the front door; now we're deciding what to put in its stead. We're also planning to hoist the queen-size bed out of the second story window (Ian has some small corded rope) and lower it down two flights to the patio where we'll place it in the new bedroom -- that ought to be amusing! (Now I get all of the those jokes about falling pianos!)
That's the latest here -- love to all!
Ian says that his co-worker/friend Mike will be at your place on Sunday (tomorrow morning) -- don't sweat being a tour guide. Just take them for a walk around the cobbled streets of downtown, by the river, up to the palace, etc. Go out to lunch and call it good! They're probably getting into tourist overload and will relish some down-time -- remember, they're on vacation! :)
It's Saturday morning here and I am pretty sure I have become mom, in her hey-day. Remember how she'd be up at the crack of dawn? And on a Saturday morning she'd be talking to Aunt Joann on the phone? Well, regardless of the time I go to bed, and despite pulling the shades down and the curtains across, here I am at 6:30am typing to you guys. Ian puts up with me talking to him for about 30 min then politely kicks me out of bed.
We have a Cinco de Mayo party to go to tonight -- do you all remember my friend Marcie from residency? She's very lively, brown hair, really sweet; she was one of the two greeters at my wedding? Anyway, her b-day is today and every year she throws herself a party. She's originally from Texas so her parents Fed-Ex a huge box of tamales up for the party (she's vegetarian so we get "bean and cheese" and chicken). Her party has grown each year so she's farmed out some of the chores and Ian and I are in charge of making "horchata" -- Mike, help me out here: it's some type of rice drink in which rice has to be soaked overnight, then you add vanilla, sugar, and cinnamon. I have no idea how it's going to turn out so am hoping that whoever is in charge of margaritas is in better shape!
We have some additional gardening to do this weekend. Last Sunday we took a poll of our neighbors (whoever happened to pass in front of our house) and decided to pull out a big tree that was by the front door; now we're deciding what to put in its stead. We're also planning to hoist the queen-size bed out of the second story window (Ian has some small corded rope) and lower it down two flights to the patio where we'll place it in the new bedroom -- that ought to be amusing! (Now I get all of the those jokes about falling pianos!)
That's the latest here -- love to all!
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