a far cry from the grill we had in the states! I picked up some eggplant, a pineapple and some grill accessories. When we got back to the apartment our steaks (the most amazing steaks I ever bought…the ones I smuggled from Hong Kong) were defrosted. Adam put the grill together and I prepared the marinade for the pineapple, seasoned the meat and the eggplant. The pineapple marinade calls for melted butter so I melted it in the microwave. OOPS the microwave didn’t work…I noticed the oven wasn’t working and the hot pot light wasn’t on. I yelled at Adam a little because he wanted to wait till Monday to have someone come and fix it (we tried the breaker…that wasn’t the problem)…BTW I didn’t yell at him because I was mad at him but because I knew there was no other way to fix this problem because...well we can’t read a phone book to call a repair man and even if it was in English I am sure the repair man couldn’t speak English. I called Jodie because I knew she has had people come fix things for her, she told me to translate a note online and take it to the security guard at our gate and he will call someone. It worked…someone came noticed that the breaker box was smoking,
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| This is about the time I wish we had a smoke detector |
went to the store bought a part and is here fixing it as I type. I am sitting here in the dark with a grumbly belly while Adam runs to the store to pick up lighter fluid after trying to start our self lighting charcoal for a half hour.
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| so much for my nicely set table |
We ended up eating dinner at 8:50 pm…it was delicious…and in the end I don’t think it was such a disaster.
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