Rainy day. More melting snow. More messy roads. A very uneventful day. We stayed inside most of the day....listening to music, watching tv, surfing the web, and making snowflakes (there are now 60 or so spread throughout the apartment...Merry Christmas).
We decided to stay in and make dinner tonight. This meant that, much to K's disapointment, we'd have to go grocery shopping. Most of the food shops near the apartment are small, limited, convenience type markets, so it was most likely going to be an adventure to pull this off. To start, we actually had to Google to find a supermarket company and then find one of its locations near us. We found one in the center of the city, and so off in the rain we went (unfortunately, we were not smart enough to bring one of the many umbrellas in the apartment, but I did bring my camera which had to be kept under my coat the entire time. I looked like I had a tumor.)
At the grocery store we scanned the aisles for ideas (we couldn't actually plan in advance because we had no idea what the store would have....supermarkets here pale in comparison to the US...is that why they are all so skinny here, perhaps?). We struggled to agree on anything. I should also point out how frustrating it can be to go to have seemingly limited options, when you are absolutely starving, and you have to interpret everything in a foreign language (particularly the spices!). It was probably at this point that it registered to me it might have been a better night to go out to eat and save making dinner for another night. Unfortunately we were already too invested in the process. K of course had already reminded me how easy it would be to order from a menu and have food served to us.
In any event, we did finally agree on stir-fry. It was something simple and quick, and the store appeared to have all the ingredients (except broccoli), which we got from a small Asian market on the walk home, along with a bottle of champagne to celebrate our first, and probably last, dinner that we cooked in the apartment. Definitely last.
Another no pic day. Sorry :(
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