Everyone has their own taste in fruit, texture especially. Personally I prefer the firmer fruit. If a peace turns soft, I will throw it. Bananas, if it is difficult to pill them, they are not ready yet, but if they have spots, it’s too late. I guess I got the fruit DNA from mom, since my dad likes them rotten (he would say ripen). Alla also prefers the softer fruit, and likes having lots of fruit in the house, for me if I see a bowl of fruit, and eat one or two, I will probably not eat the rest, having skipped them in previous selections, the same with movies, you go to the cinema and you have 5 movies to chose from, and you choose 1. I will usually not go back to see the others, since they were skipped on selection, maybe wait for the movie to come to the library. After this wired opening (not sure why) we definitely seen one to many movies this weekend, our 1st official weekend in our place, after alla finished pharmacy school (still another year of rotations, but the Erie part is done).
Yesterday we saw funny people, though the promo suggests it’s funny, I suspected it was not. The truth – it was funny, depressing, depressingly funny, then funny and depressing again- sort of a feel good feel bad type of movie, not sure if I recommend it or not. I guess a 7.2 on the Seth rogan scale.
We went to see the proposal, a romantic comedy with Sandra bullock, we had some time before the movie and snuck in to G-Force which just started, after 15 minutes we had an option of leaving to see the proposal, but Alla chose to stay in a surprising move – I would give it a 7 on the cute scale, and Alla gives it a 7 on the Disney scale. Movie to take the kids to.
500 days of summer as well (told you one to many movies)- by the name I assumed somebody spends a summer, then go to the southern hemisphere and so forth, I was wrong. It’s an Alim movie- good acting, but nothing happens, I guess you should see this movie in the winter, a shame to waste summer weather on it.
To counter these lesser choices Alla got me a gift few months back, but it popped out just now with the move.
We have seen this movie at home, and it is definitely a 10. Yes I am referring to Dumb and dumber- which is a very clever movie, no obscenity but great humor.
Ok enough movies, oh we did see something good in the cinema a week ago. The ugly truth, another romantic comedy, kind of expected but funny none the less- 8.6 on the hot air balloon scale.
Sake is something I never tried. Not usually for me since it contains alcohol. But yesterday I was in an experimental mood. We went to shaker square for the Brazilian restaurant, which was closed (at 9 pm!) this square has few expensive restaurants and a movie theater(funny people) and we went for the Japanese place. They had a sake tasting dish- 5 types of sake arranged from the dry to the sweet. I didn’t really get how a liquid can be dry, but never mind. We started with the dry one, which had an alcohol smell but was kind of without flavor, so it was decent, the rest – the sweeters, tasted like medicine. Bahhhhh, we both disliked it- so we guess that sake sucks. No disrespect for the Japanese heritage, simply not for us.
I tried some Korean ribs, and those Koreans are skinny, no meat.
We sampled some brownie desert with green tea ice cream, which was ok- never tried this flavor before, not sure I will again.
A contract should be signed tomorrow, and it is for an important event. Mark your calendars, June 9th 2010 at around 8:00 pm, a reverse wedding at the saba well. you are all invited of course.
Tomorrow has come already and the contract is signed! J
We are driving now from anchorage to Tok. The road is beautiful, tall impressive mountains all clad in green, green leafy trees, rivers, purple flowers on the sides of the road and very nice weather.
We woke up early and took a cab to the car rental place to get our car, from a little caravan, a man gets out, with a cup of coffee and points us inward. This RV is the office, good usage of space. Even though we told the car rental upfront where were we headed. The probably stoned last night car rental dude begun to get cold feet, saying that our trip is great and he doesn’t want to discourage us, but he doesn’t think the car will make the drive, and if it something happens, we are liable, but he does not want to discourage us… and so on a few times, then he pointed us to another local car rental place with a guy who is willing to risk the car on the dirt roads. Some of the roads are of lesser quality, pot holes, mud, rocks etc, we will see (and report) how bad they truly are, so far on Alaska main hwy they are ok.
So stoney, but honest looking clerk dude drives us to Mr schister. Who has a van. I ask what year is the van, he says “it doesn’t matter, this is the car that I am going to give you”. We showed signs of hesitation, and he showed signs of creepiness. This dude has a thing against Canada, he decided to steer us of our destination and pointing us to Homer, the complete opposite way. And started saying that the crossing to Canada is awful, they actually check you passport!!! Why bother with the hassle, drive to homer. And we should check our insurance card, they ask for that and then shouted “do you have insurance!” he seems eager to kick us out of there, strange man, we all felt the anti views he sent our way. I guess he felt the no deal before us and drove us to thrifty – a known chain, and we ended up paying more than we intended, but now we have a good car, comfort and security. The car is now full with food and water. We have made a few scenery stops and have good photos.
Yesterday evening we arrived to anchorage. Amit and Eran arrived a few hours before. I expected Amit to wait for us, since we didn’t schedule when to meet, he didn’t (we didn’t have the car rental yet) and we caught the bus to town, and then instead of walking 10 blocks we caught a cab to the hostel.
We walked around town staring at the pacific ocean, the woods and the massive mountains from the same spot. We sat down for dinner; I had a sea food chowder in a bread ball. The chowder was overflowing in the ball, leaking to the plate, which makes it better. Alla ordered the salmon, which was very succulent and yummy. Amit and Eran, called after returning from a short hike and their own Anchorage tales and we walked back to Inn and seeing lots of building painted on the outside with pictures of whales, bears, Indians, and other mammals.
Last week Alla moved out of the grasp of the evil buffilia aka Emilia the buffalo with a check in hand, minus a bad, alla is a kind person. But something’s are too much, so we striped the house from Blinds, light bulbs, curtain rods, microwave (leaving Scorched earth – an ancient Russian technique), we didn’t want to leave the female dog person anything. But still she got way with a lot. Never mind issue is closed.
That they, our apartment looked busy, with all the boxes, I left to work and by the end of the they the house looked complete. Photos and mirrors were hanged, souvenirs were carefully placed and food was ready(salads, l went to get pizza and ice cream) for our first official guests in our complete place. Alla’s sister with her family and mom and dad, enjoyed a quality pizza and my newly spontaneously created Chives & egg fried rice and of course salads, breads and Gelato. Lucky I have A stock pile of popsicles for the kids, who seem to pick color and not flavor.
Last week, as soon as alla graduated, we celebrated with her whole class in a Bar crawl. This was my first crawl, and it goes like this; you stop at a bar at 6, enjoy a drink or two ( I had an appletiny ), Alla had a Cosmo (and the reminder of my appletini); you can also have dinner. Then at seven pm, you scream with everyone and crawl to the next bar, still sober. At the next bar you drink some more,,,, every hour another place and at the end of the night you find a way to crawl home. I had 4 drinks but stayed sober, since Alla finished my appletini, and 2 of the schnapps drinks, were some kind of juice with a drop of schnapps, so I remained sober while Alla had just a bit to much to drink. We danced, we sang out loud, we talked and we drank fro the end of the school era.
Alla was feeling bad the next morning, but leaving buffilia made her feel good.
We returned just now from a short hike to view the Manatsuka glacier, Amit as usual leads the way and we walked slowly enjoying the views and the flowers and Alla reminiscing about similar views from Russia ( I assumed it’s a frosty winter, but she remembers otherwise), including a lovely hibiscus flower. No bears so far.
After intensive packing on Saturday we decided to take a break and went to Guaga lake, which has a water park. We stayed for 4.5 hours enjoying various slides, tube slides and a funnel slides. And if you were wandering, a water slide locker does not cost 25 cents… but more like 8$.
Ok enough for now, people want to send emails in the back sit.
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