Wanna hear what we did? Well, Monday night I got ambitious and made Kyle make me a quiche - and by 'made' I mean he chopped the bacon and grated the cheese - GO KYLE! Here's a picture. It's not very good because we had to take it with Kyle's camera phone because my fone is still in the shop...
I am damn proud that my first attempt at a quiche turned out like this! I made this in memory of Quiche Night Extravaganza! It's held every year by my dear from Megan. We have very yummy food and play games (I'm going to miss it this year :( )So Kyle ate it (there's like a pound of cheese in there) so all day the next day he was like 'Do you smell cheese?' 'Smell my hand, I think it smells like cheese.' 'Do you have the desire to eat me right now?' Sorry Kyle, you're not made of cheese and I'm not going to eat you.
So, on to my birthday day! Kyle got to go into the office late and then come home at lunch. He was gone when I woke up at my usual 9 am. Between 9 and 12 I got a lot done. I worked out on the Wii Fit (and beat like 7 of Kyle's high scores - I was on a ROLL!), did all the email stuff I had to do, had breakfast, and had a great idea for Webster Team that I started in on.
Right at noon I hopped in the shower (2 seconds before I heard Kyle call). He got home and changed and then we had to decide what we wanted to do with our day. We had decided we wanted to go to a really yummy Italian place for dinner (let me tell you, after having REAL ITALIAN food made by ITALIANS Fazoli's just doesn't cut it anymore - that doesn't mean I'll stop eating there upon my return). We looked into renting a Smart Car for the day but there wasn't one close to us to rent.
We finally decide we're going to go to Ikea for Swedish Meatballs. 1:36 is our train. On the way there we decide we want a snack - ICE CREAM - Magnums baby!
**Magnum side note - For those of you that know what magnums are in the US it is NOT THE SAME THING. Magnums are eatable heaven here (endorsed by Eva Longoria). It's a piece of cake batter ice cream from Coldstone on a stick with a half inch shell of milk chocolate all over it. It is like the absolute best thing EVER! Now, if you ever, say, have a little too much to drink and then decide to eat ice cream on a stick you can go on for like four hours making innuendo-ous comments. But I would NEVER do that!
So it's 1:30 in the afternoon, it's like 50 degrees outside, Kyle should be at work and I shouldn't have even showered yet, and we're eating ice cream outside waiting for a train to take us shopping. Yeah, we got some looks.
Take the S8 7ish stops until you get to Bahnhof DietLikon (not Dietikon, VERY DIFFERENT STOPS!) then take the 787 2 stops to Industriestrasse unless you want to to straight to ToysRus then you take it 3 stops.
We get out at Ikea and hightail it into their bargain basement. 6CHF we are the proud owners of some crazy ice molds and a pickle ball set (minus the net). IN THE THE BIG IKEA!
Ikea is like a maze of wonderment. They don't really have aisles you just follow the tile brick road all over the store and you will see everything. Kyle wanted to beeline it for the food but the food is 1/2 way through the store so it's not really a good idea to, like, go to food then start shopping - it's more like a rest stop 1/2 way through.
Luckily for Kyle the first half of the store is pretty much all big stuff, sofas, chairs, tables, etc. I did pick up a rolling pin so I can make sugar cookies later. RIGHT BEFORE the cafe is all the kids stuff. OMG, my motherly side came out like crazy (it must be because I'm old now). I 'ohhed' and 'ahhed' over every little thing! I heart miniature stuff and they had a whole section of tea party stuff. I almost picked it up in one swift movement and put it in my bag. Kyle was like 'What the hell are you going to do with that? No one is going to play tea party with you!' and I was like 'If Megan and Lin were here they would play with me and we would make baby quiches and homemade crumpets and real tea!!!' But they aren't here so I didn't get it, BOO!
Finally Kyle got his food. He stepped out of the box and go some sort of wild rice and brown gravy something - he should have gotten the meatballs like me.
We finished up the store and picked up a couple of things and checked out. Our few things added up to 70 CHF - isn't that always how it works?
Next stop, the 'mall' across the street. We'd never been there so since it was the middle of the day on a Tuesday we thought it would be a good time. Nothing really exciting there, a shoe store and a whole bunch of sport stores. Although I did decide I want pink ski pants to go with my new coat (I found them in Switzerland so I have to be able to find them online right?). The top floor of this 'mall' was a Media Markt. It's like the hugest store in the whole world - but it's like 3/4 the size of the Best Buy in O-town. Kyle let me buy a couple of cds but that was all we could afford at 20CHF a piece, on sale.
ON TO TOYSRUS! We walked a couple of blocks to the store and were determined to get a new game. First, we wanted to get the expansion kit for Settles of Catan so we can play with 5-6 people. But that's still a game you need at least 3 people to play with so we set off to find a 2 player game. We needed up finding Ubongo and it came with the dice game of Settles of Catan (also a 2 player game) supposedly for free, so we pretty much scored big time. We also decided we needed another snack. Kyle got some Haribo and I got one of those crazy dust suckers that I used to get when I was little.
We're tired now so we head to the bus stop to head home. While we were waiting for the train to arrive we saw an ad for the new reduced price of the McDonald's Hamburger - you know, the 79 cent burger in the states? - it was 2.50 CHF. Um yeah, and you wonder why I spent like $10,000 in the states when we were home last month.
So we take the train home and then Kyle hides in the bedroom with the wrapping paper we bought at Ikea. I assume he's wrapping the presents he bought for me during the day.
Three presents later he surprised me! He wasn't wrapping what we just bought! On top of the new board games and 2 cds I got an UK edition of Cosmo (yeah English magazines!!) and 2 more cds!
I've been listening to my cds ever since: Ben Folds, Sex And The City soundtrack, Across the Universe soundtrack, and NKOTB!
We really didn't want to go back out by then so we popped a pizza in the oven and started playing Ubongo. It was really fun! It kinda as a Tetris aspect of it. After we played a couple games of that we decided we better stop playing, we didn't hate the game yet.
After our games we watched our Tivod episodes of Big Bang Theory (that show totally cracks me up!) and How I Met Your Mother (I'm so glad Sarah Chalk is gone - she was such a lame-o!). I let Kyle read Eclipse a little bit before he went to bed - but ripped it out of his hands promptly at 10pm (I let him read till 11pm the night before and he wasn't very happy with himself). He actually thanked me for taking the book away - he knew it was right thing.
I stayed up a little while long and did stuff and then headed to bed.
It was a great birthday! I wish I could have been at home but other then that Kyle and I had so much fun just spending the day together.
I hope everyone else had just a good of October 21 as I did!
1 comment:
I love quiche although have never mastered making it. Well done! Enjoy it.
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