our weekend was pretty surprising. let me just jump right in...
we went and voted on friday afternoon...which was actually quite fun. it was a long line, but it moved quickly, and it feels good to vote. we then got dressed up to go to our halloween dinner party and went out. the party was nice (you can see our costumes above) and we had a good time. we left and came back home to change back into our civilian clothes and head out to the international cinema to catch the orphanage. on our way to the movie we noticed that our obama sign had been stolen from our front yard (note this is the low part of the weekend)! we were shocked and mad. no one else's political yard signs had been stolen. we were the only ones with an obama sign (the rest of them are for a republican delegate who's running). arg...i think it's so dumb to steal political yard signs. you don't see me liking all the candidates but i don't steal people's signs...you have to let people think the way they want to think. and it's sad because we had wanted to keep the sign and always remember the year that obama won (oh please please he needs to win). the only bright side after that was that the movie was scary and good.
then saturday we had a chance to go to a latino market in orem. we hadn't been there yet...and were so surprised and delighted to see that they sell mamey licuados (ie zapote batidas...the absolutely delicious smoothie-type drink we found in the dominican republic). i never thought i would see those for sell in the us. so of course we had one of those...and then we found that they sell fresh zapotes in the market there. unfortunately it's still quite hard...so cross your fingers that it will ripen up soon (the picture of the potato-like thing is the zapote).
then that night we went out to osaka with some friends...and enjoyed such a nice, cheap dinner. i haven't eaten much japanese food in my life, but the teriyaki salmon was so good. and we had such improving conversation too. it's always so nice to meet and spend time with interesting people.
then just one more thing: it rained all day sunday. that was perfectly wonderful.
5 comments:
Oh Boy! It sounds like you two had a great time on Halloween. I really am sorry to hear about the theft of your Obama sign. In Oklahoma theft and/or vanadlism of political signs is punishable by a $200 fine. Anyway, we used small nails to attach our Obama sign to the fence around our porch.
D, that's good to know about Oklahoma. From the sound of things, though, you folks aren't taking $200 as any type of guarantee. It's small nails that insures your sign.
So why did we have to wait so long to be deemed worthy of the knowledge that Br(y)ian and Norma have a blog? We could have been making moderately pithy comments all this time.
We also had our Obama sign stolen. We can't decide whether it's because Republicans are sore losers or because Democrats are poor and can't afford their own signs.
so maybe the news of our new president elect will ease the pain from having your sign stolen? i hope so!
i'm glad you had an otherwise "up" halloween weekend. you guys rocked your costumes...although i'm a little jealous to read that you are making new friends and eating at fabulous restaurants. we miss you!
courtney...no worries. you three (almost four) will always be our friends (and i'm not just saying that to make you feel better). you just need to get a job out here somewhere. it would be great to have you all around again.
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