After last weekend’s travel packed weekend, we were definitely looking forward to staying at home this weekend. Besides, our house looked like a disaster zone with all of our HHE strewn about with no order to it. Rita and Sunil .. well, mainly Sunil …. kept trying to tell me that they could unpack everything and put it all away but I was no okay with that. This is Stewart’s and my house. I want to set it up. I want to make it our home. I want to actually feel like I live here instead of just being on extended vacation.
Friday evening, the ambassador had all of the new families over to her house for a cocktail welcome party. Her house was really nice and definitely set up for entertaining (why else would you have public restrooms?). The food was great and the atmosphere was friendly and cheerful despite the nasty monsoon weather outside. The Rays were there as well so Teresa and I mainly stuck side by side for the duration. Neither of us are big social butterflies. The nice part was that I did meet some more females in our age range that were super nice and friendly. Looking forward to hanging out with those ladies in the future. We got home with the expectation of unpacking some of our boxes but that quickly got squashed when Stewart suggested an episode of Breaking Bad. His brother gave us the first three seasons for Christmas, and it arrived in our HHE. It’s actually a really good show.
On Saturday, we got up and I headed for the kitchen. I’ve been looking forward to getting our HHE so I could finally cook and bake! I found a recipe for ricotta cheese and yogurt pancakes topped with homemade fruit compote. I whipped up breakfast and made coffee for Stewart. I’m thinking it’ll be three years before I have coffee again because I can’t find any half and half here! Breakfast was quite tasty. We puttered around the house and I took a nap. In the afternoon, I made hummus! I may one day venture into making my own pita but I’ll stick with hummus for now. Stewart and I were both surprised with how well it turned out. I’m not sure we’ll be buying it in the stores when we return to the states now.
That evening, the Rays invited us over for dinner. Teresa made cashew chicken, spring rolls, and veggies. I drank way too much sweet tea. When we started getting word of our HHE finally arriving, I got a hankering for sweet tea. I knew I had packed tea and we have a good sized pitcher perfect for sweet tea……. The pitcher didn’t make it. We don’t know where it is but it’s probably with some cups that we’re also missing. So I haven’t been able to make sweet tea yet. We’re going to have to buy a new pitcher. We had a good time hanging out and then headed home.
Sunday, I woke up and made apple fritters for breakfast. They were pretty tasty. We decided to actually tackle the disaster zone we were living in and made some really good progress. The kitchen and dining room are completely organized. The living room still needs some work but looks like a living room. We’ll continue to work on it when we get home in the evenings this week. Of course, watching three episodes of Breaking Bad didn’t help with the workload.
We’re looking forward to next weekend when our house is hopefully all organized and decorated and we can have a lazy holiday weekend together.
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