Thursday, November 19, 2009

We woke up early this morning as we were hoping that Julianne would have received my phone message last night and would be here at 8:30am so that we could use her car today. As it turned out, she didn't show up at that time. She did phone me later and told me that she had left her phone at work and she doesn't have an answering machine at home. She told me that we could use her car tomorrow. As it turns out, that will be good cuz we can have the car for the whole day as opposed to the half day we would have had the car today.

First on our list was to get the laundry done. Since we have to hang all our clothes, we have to start early in the morning. We were able to get three loads done today - even though our front loader takes over an hour to wash one load. We are using a eco-friendly detergent called 'Earth Choice' and it works really well. You have to buy a special soap here on the property because 'grey water' (recycled water) is used for washing clothes. I am not sure if the front loader is the reason why the clothes came out so white or if it's the soap or a combination of the two. It's weird watching the clothes wash, though, as the soap is low-sudsing and it doesn't look as if soap is being used at all. The reason that the front loading machine was installed here is that it takes way less water to do a wash and they are often in a water rationing mode here.

We spent most of the day working on our Princess Cruise blog - we are getting better at doing it without having to make corrections, but the only time we have been perfect is one day that had no photos. :-) We have completed 17 days now which is great - we will keep working on it every day. Mike and I agree that we don't have time for a job right now - we are too busy! :-)

For lunch today, we heated up two cans of soup - minestrone for me and moroccan lamb and couscous for Mike. When I tasted mine, the liquid part of the soup tasted horrible. When Mike tasted his, it was so spicy, even he couldn't handle it. We decided to throw them out and eat some Chunky soup instead. We are definitely having to try different brands here - sometimes the food tastes good (like what we're used to) and sometimes it's just off. Don't know why they just don't have all the foods I like here. :-)

We did take time this afternoon to watch one of our six movies that we rented at Blockbuster. We decided to watch a comedy called 'Are We There Yet?' It was about a single guy who falls for a single mom and ends up driving her kids from Oregon to Vancouver, B.C. to meet up with her there. It was an okay movie - we gave it a 6.0 - one of them typical kid movies where the single mom's kids don't like anyone who likes their mom, gives him a hard time, he wins them over, blah, blah, blah. But, it was better than last night's movie, 'About A Boy' which we gave a 4.5.

Since we had to eat our supper for lunch, we decided to go to the local convenience store which is also a take-away. After looking over the menu very carefully, I decided on a sausage roll, chico roll and chips (french fries - see, I'm talking Australian already :-) and Mike had fish and chips. All of the take-away was quite tasty. When you get chips over here, they often come sprinkled with chicken salt rather than regular salt. It tastes like they add chicken powder (like Bovril or Oxo in Canada) to salt - it's really tasty.

We spent the evening watching tv - yes, we do really like all the shows we watched. There's a new show called 'Glee' that I really like - about a glee club in a high school. Then we watched three hours of CSI - Miami, Vegas, and New York. All three of the episodes were connected to each other and so the stars of each show were on the shows of each other.