when i was pregnant with beckett i lived off of rice krispies. i was so excited when i saw them at a friend's house. of course they do not have them at my usual grocery store and it has taken me three weeks to make it to the other store. i finally got my rice krispies yesterday and had two big bowls this morning. i wasn't sure if would be just as i had remembered them (we made the mistake of getting excited over fruit loops which are nothing like the real fruit loops!)but they were. it was a good morning.
i had a huge guacamole craving. so much so that i dragged all four of us to the only mexican restaurant in casa ("mexico"). it would not have been such a big deal but it was very rainy and we had to park down the street and walk quite a ways with the kids. the guacamole was actually really good, especially for morocco. i thought it would fix my craving but i just wanted more! we go to the store to buy avocados but none of them were ripe so i asked najet to bring me some when she came. well, wouldn't you guess that it floods so she can't make it to our apartment or to buy avocados. i finally get my ripe avocados three days later and i am able to make my homemade, fresh guacamole. i ate about half the bowl in one sitting, not even caring that it was only 10:30 in the morning.
this was a great moment. i had been having a hard time last week, just missing the little things. i told scott that i would do anything just to sit on a couch and sip a starbucks. well, scott had a BIG surprise for me. he heard of an "american" style coffee shop and took me there last night! they had real couches and real coffee drinks. when i say real coffee i mean real caramel lattes in regular size cups (not just dark espresso with a little bit of caramel syrup in a shot glass) and even frappuccinos! yes, frappuccinos! i would even venture to say that they were better than starbucks because the actual coffee here is better than starbucks and it was sweeter. oh, and they have to go cups! it was one of my best nights here: out alone with scott, sipping my decaf caramel frappuccino (yes, they even have decaf) and reading a gossip magazine (didn't even mind that the magazine was french!) we will have many more of these dates.
