Wednesday 4 April 2012
We got up when we wanted. Roos and Henri both went to work. We lit a fire in the dining room fireplace while Dian started making chili for dinner, but she made it too hot for Roos and Henri's taste we thought, so Charles drove to the grocery store to buy a fresh set of ingredients. Dian learned the valuable lesson that you can always add more heat, but you can't take it back.
We served the different chilis. Roos and Henri tried both the "hot" and the mild and declared they liked the mild version but thought the "hot" wasn't too "hot". Lesson learned: you can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself. Taking his cue from Nicole, Henri even brought out his camera to take pictures of the meal.
At 10:30 PM as Nicole Skyped her friend Ariana for the first time in a loooong time, Henri came down the stairs and said, "Sorry, I have to go." "Why??" Nicole asked, it being so late. "A man just dropped dead off his bicycle." That's not something you hear everyday, and it reminded us of the real dedication and sense of duty one has to have for a job like that.
We got up when we wanted. Roos and Henri both went to work. We lit a fire in the dining room fireplace while Dian started making chili for dinner, but she made it too hot for Roos and Henri's taste we thought, so Charles drove to the grocery store to buy a fresh set of ingredients. Dian learned the valuable lesson that you can always add more heat, but you can't take it back.
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| And dessert! Vanilla and strawberry ice cream with fresh strawberries and a chocolate and coconut cookie |
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