Last week on Friday, Dave and I had a lovely dinner out at a restaurant called Acorn Bar & Bistro. We heard from a friend that the food was delicious, so we wanted to see for ourselves what it was all about, (especially since it was the first time we had been out to eat for dinner since I’ve been out here.) We shared a beautiful mushroom soup, Dave had pork belly, I had beef bourginion and we each had a glass of lovely red wine. What a treat!!! The couple sitting next to us was very cool too; they were around our parents age, she was a school teacher, he a builder. Our tables were seated next to us so that it was hard to have your own conversation, so they started one with us by asking if I was Irish or Canadian. Ha! Funny. It went on from there and they learned that we were living in a caravan trying to live frugally, pay off my student loans and Dave was beginning his career as a luthier. Kevin told us that he wished his daughter would learn how to be penny-savers like us, and we all laughed and enjoyed our meals together. They finished their crème brulee before us and after they had left, the owner approached and said, “The couple sitting next to you enjoyed your company so much and thought that you were such a lovely couple, they just paid for your dinner.” Dave and my eyes lit up, eyebrows raised and in shock, asked her if she was serious. She assured us that she was and that this was the first time anyone had done that in her restaurant. Wow! We were so giddy! As Dave and I were leaving, we told her we felt like we should do dishes or something, she introduced us to the Chef and Sous chef and we made our exit. Our meal was over $100 easily and it was such a treat to have someone else pick up the tab. :)
Yesterday, (Saturday), Dave worked on the sleep-out all day while I skyped with my family, worked on a new painting and made dinner. Today, I tried to help by scraping the paint off a used window we got for free, but after a while I was tired. I worked on my painting again and took a long nap; woke up to eat some chocolate and work on this blog. Laaaaazzzzy daaaayyyy.
Now I am sitting in the caravan while Dave and his brother, Bry are working on building us a room outside the caravan. They’ve been going so hard all day, even when its been raining and the power has been out all day so they have had to saw all the wood by hand. Such sweet men!!!! It will be a nice size, 3 x 4 meters, so we can put our bed inside along with a small table and chairs to eat or work at. I am really quite excited. Dave is going to make some shelves for the inside so we can easily stow all our crap and try to keep things more orderly. It can be quite difficult living in a small space to keep all the things put away. Even though we don’t have much, when we don’t put things away it gets cluttered very quickly.
Over break, I’ve also been trying to gather resources for teaching reading to the kids, which could be a challenge. The classroom I will be teaching is year 5-8 students, (5th-8th grade), and some of the younger ones can’t read. I am hoping that I can work on getting some of that organized tomorrow.
I’m so sleepy. Naps make it worse if you sleep too long, and that is where I am at. Sleepy monkey. Its only 430pm. ZZZZzzzzzzz….
I ended up drinking a b-vitamin energy booster and made us a lovely dinner…. Garbanzos, lentils and onions on top of lettuce… with cheese, salsa and guacamole.
Dave and I were asleep by 830pm. :)
Dave and his bro Bryan building the floor for our new monkey house!!!
Celebratory foamy homebrew after a long day of hard work. Thank you!!!
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