Tuesday Charlotte, Marlene and I went rollerblading on the waterfront, which was kind of amusing seeing as Marlene has pretty much never roller bladed and was clinging onto either my hands or Charlotte's back/the stroller thingy. It was sprinkling when I left the house but thankfully the weather cooperated and we had sun the whole time we bladed. Then Ning met up with us for Lunch at Helium - a bar where Katie and I had some very interesting experiences back in November.
I just woke up from a dream where I was in Vegas. Guilty feelings for missing Jen's wedding I'm sure. While I am not going to Vegas, I am going to PARIS!!! Andrea gave me the go ahead and I will be going with The Women at the end of June! Charlotte is from Paris and her parents still live right outside the city so we will be staying there and getting tours by a real Parisian who likes us! Charlotte has lent me some pretty funny books about a British guy living in Paris. I'm pretty stoked. Side note: 34 days till Greece. SO EXCITED.Andrea was gone a couple days this week in Portugal for work so the kids were stuck with mean-ol-cara. They lost their sweets one night but went to bed beautifully and got up on their own and were super easy. It was fabulous.
The past few days Katie and I have been baking/cooking up a bit. Susie, a friend of the family's, came into town Friday and left last night. Katie and I made a tofu-veggie-stir fry w/ quinoa that was pretty yummy, and then an AMAZING apricot upside-down cake. After eating a couple of pieces of that and daring to put a very little bit of whipped cream on top I suffered an owie stomach ache the rest of the night. :( Thankfully for part of the night I was very distracted. Katie and I went out into town to people watch and try and walk off my stomach ache and were approached by two guys. One asked us if we had a light while showing us his lighter that worked. Later he showed us an empty pack of cigarettes with another lighter in it. Oh well, it worked - the conversation started and ended a couple of hours. A few awkward moments, I got a marriage proposal, and we laughed a lot.
Yesterday Katie made some chocolate wafers - the dough was so yummy that we contemplated not baking it. We did though. I finished the caramel popcorn I made last week and Katie is going to be needing to make again some of the delicious white sangria she made last week.
GO USA! TV's are up and going all over the city watching the soccer world cup games. Today is the war in my house - Australia vs. Germany. O-lay o-lay o-lay o-lay OR Aussie Aussie Aussie oy oy oy!!! I am one confused child.
In the 70's all this week - Yes.
