I had my standard days off again, Wednesday and Sunday. Monday and Tuesday were working days in which I did my evening shifts again. Tuesday, after work, I was hanging around in the kitchen area, and talked with Pedro and Yatha. Made myself some fries in the meantime, and made the deal to go running next morning. Come Wednesday, around 11, no Pedro, and he didn't answer his phone. So it was Yatha and myself going for the projected run. For those who want to live it with us, here's the image. Feel free to look it up on Google Maps yourself as well and zoom in and such;
Route; 1401 NE 9th Street - 901 NE 20th Ave - 505 N Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd - 2317 E Las Olas Blvd - 101 SE 15th Ave - 701 NE 15th Ave - 1401 NE 9th Street.
If you fill these in in Google Maps (find Route and Add Destinations) you'll get the entire route lined out for you. Per street address you can also see photos, I believe.
After that, we went to the bank (in Tina's car) before heading off to Sawgrass Mills. While at Wachovia for the banking stuff, we ran in to Marinka, who was with Tommy (inside the bank at the time), offering up to get something to drink at Borders on Sunrise. Borders is a big book shop which also sells CDs and DVDs, and has a coffee shop in there, which has a terrace on the water. It's on my way to work, but I've never been there before. This time around, I bought a lot of books from Baldacci in English print. I think everyone in the house (and someone at work) have gotten their hands on one of the copies so I'm spreading the virus!
At Sawgrass, we split. Yatha and I went one way, Marinka and Tommy the other. I went to look for some snowboard gear. Pants, jacket and some thermo clothing to keep me warm out there. Found everything I was looking for, basically. Yatha found everything he wasn't looking for, and ended up with 80 dollars worth of cosmetics. Wonderful stuff. I must add, the appearance of the sales lady definately helped. Gorgeous.
Went back to rendezvous point around 5:35, as we would be there at 5:45. Tommy and Marinka showed up a 6:10, with only 3 bags total, from nothing but the Hilfiger shop. How hard can things be? I remember people being there for 11 hours straight. It's not that hard to do it faster, despite the mall being HUGE.
On Friday, after work, I went to McSorley's, the Irish pub, with Yatha, Tony (MIT at the Pool), Nikolay (F&B Manager) and Tyler (bartender). Tony left early, but we ended up playing darts, a game of stones and sand, similar to bowls, or curling, I guess. I won 2 out of 3 games (teams changed every time), and I love that game a lot.
Before going home we stopped by Primanti Bros, one of the most famous pizza places in the city. I think they're open 24 hours a day. Had a good bite of Pepperoni pizza.
Saturday, Bart and I went to the ski shop on Sunrise here, to get out goggles, gloves and socks that we still missed. Got everything but the boards and helmets now, but we'll rent those in Colorado itself. Four more nights!
I did another round of running today, the same one. Did a round in 45 minutes, which felt really well. Wind in my back on the way home on Las Olas made it a lot easier.
Bart is cooking right now. He's chopping up potatoes, and making chicken with onions and herbs.
Almost all the fruit was for sale at Publix, so I have bought two bags of cherries, two boxes of strawberries and a bunch of apples (one bag of cherries is gone already). That's for desert.
I was going to help him, but made him cook as he bailed out on running with me today. He was supposed to make that run for the first time, but he made me go alone today (Yatha went Friday when I was working, and he's working right now).
When it's all done we'll be watching Leverage. We got three more episodes we haven't seen yet. So that's another two hours. Yesterday we watched Will Smith's latest, Seven Pounds. It's a good movie, but nothing spectacular and it has no replay value for me. It's a slow, dramatic, maybe even feel-good movie.
For some music, I have chosen Air Traffic's "No More Running Away"
1 comment:
Enjoy your snowboarding trip! I take it we'll get a large picture update when you get back? Hope you don't freeze half to death like I did over New Year. Must be fun though, going from sunny beaches to snowy mountains in a mere day. Holland's just starting to defrost; we had a six-inch layer of snow in Veldhoven which wouldn't budge for a week. People were all going a bit mad and there was a lot of talk about the Elfstedentocht being dusted off, but nothing happened in the end (except many delays on behalf on the NS, bet you don't miss that!). Take care, try not to break anything!
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