Girl's Day Out

Yesterday Laura, Natalie and I had a much needed girl's day out. We'd been looking forward to it all week and it didn't disappoint. Our first and foremost goal was a search for pizza. We'd all been craving it but hadn't found anywhere that had it (aside from telepizza which is a fast food chain and not good at. all.). We decided to try this place called Approach that was close to the school. The sign said "pizzeria" so we figured it was a safe bet. It was definitely a good choice. It was expensive but 100% worth it. The pizza was amazing! We all three finished the pizza (a big accomplishment) and started the day with happy tummies.

We walked through town, stopping at the fish market (Laura hadn't been there yet, and probably will never go again, she wasn't a fan of the hundreds of dead fish), the artisian market where we got alpaca and wool sweaters (finally), and the mall. After shopping for a little bit we were way too weighed down with bags to go anywhere else so we headed home. Our plan was to stop by the store, buy brownie mix, and go home and bake them while doing homework. Unfortunately we couldn't find brownie mix so we settled on ice cream with brownie chunks instead. We did homework for a few hours, never actually breaking into the ice cream (its hard to hide ice cream from 3 little boys running around and we figured their mother wouldn't appreciate them wanting ice cream right before bedtime). When we finally gave up on homework (influenced strongly by my host mom, Gloria, who read part of my paper that I had written, declared me brain dead and told us to wrap it up and start again tomorrow), we decided to get something to eat. We headed to El Bunker and ordered a chicken burger (one between the 3 of us, they're that big) and a platter of fries (and by platter I mean truckload). Luckily Simon, this guy in our program came in and helped us finish our fries while he was waiting for other people because it was a wee bit too much for us. After that we walked Natalie to the bus stop and then went home and went to bed. It was a really good day. Exactly what we needed. Today we're going to pick up and start where we left off on the homework. At some point today we're chowing down on ice cream, in the presence of the kidlets or not.

Donut time at the mall!

Everything is turning patriotic in preparation for the bicentennial on Sept. 18.


Heart shaped rock

Us in our cool new sweaters

Stripes!

Cool table at the restaurant

My side was the prettiest

Cozy atmosphere at Approach

Waiting for pizza

YUM