Good Weekend (month 2)

I guess I'm finally to the point where I've stopped noticing what day I'm on and past the point of even trying to do the math. We'll just say we're into month 2.

Well, let's see. I still don't have a job, but I DO finally have a car. It is a little silver 2000 Nissan March. And yes, the steering wheel is on the rightand I have to shift gears with my left hand. It's about the size of Jim's car, for those of you who know what that is. It's great though, I love it. It fits anywhere; it's nice and narrow so I won't be having anymore rear-view-mirror-meets-dumpster accidents. (Yeah, you know that rental car wrecking contest I mentioned before? I won.) And it can actually go pretty fast, too.

This past weekend (starting on Thursday actually) was probably the best one yet. Thursday I spent the day in Larnaca with Eleni, who woke up with a "migraine" and couldn't make it to work. So being the good, jobless friend that I am, I went down to make sure she was ok. Luckily for us, Frappes on the beach cure all. Friday night we went with three of our friends to the Cyprus wine festival in Limassol. DC people, picture the Renaissance festival (minus the costumes) meets Virginia state fair meets the Greek Festival at St. Sophia's on Mass Ave. Then add plastic jugs of free all-you-can-drink local wine that you just swig out of as you're walking around. Yup, definitely my kind of place. And since we were with Greek Cypriots, we of course had to try all the different "sweets" that we don't have back in the U.S. From there we hit a few bars/clubs in Limassol, stayed in hotel apartments that night, and went to the beach the next day.

Then Saturday night we made our weekly Saturday night trip to Larnaca to go to Secrets. Sunday night was quite amusing, as we played "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" in Greek. Although Barb and I had a bit of a disadvantage, being that a) the questions are in greek; b) the answer choices were in greek; and c) many questions were of greek subject matter; we did manage to get a good laugh out of the apparently difficult question "What is Wyoming?" A river, a mountain, a city or a state? She (greek cypriot on other team) used her "phone-a-friend" lifeline and phoned me (even though I was sitting across the table from her) and asked me "Hi Tzen? What is Ouaioumink?" That was definitely the hardest I've laughed since I've been here. It was a great weekend.