Saturday, August 1, 2009

No Power Means Eating Out

Each afternoon, I let Aaron play some computer games while I do my exercises (to a DVD). Later on, with the A/C on or sometimes just the fan, we go through all his activity books, read or perhaps play with his lego. Sometime after 5pm, I'll start on my blog post for the day and dinner and Aaron will watch his Thomas DVD.

Well, at around 2pm yesterday, everything stopped working. Another dreaded power outage! I kept hoping that it was just a short one but it dragged on the whole afternoon. The surprising thing is that the heat didn't seem to bother Aaron much at all. I sat by the door hoping to catch any breeze that might come through but he moved about as normal. We still had a decent afternoon doing most of the things we normally did.

By 4.30pm, I said we would go out for a walk. The sun was still pretty strong outside but by this time, it was cooler outside than in. And when we got back, the power still hadn't returned!

No power means no water and that means no cooking either :)

Richard took us to this place that he's been to a few times but I've never been. Its called Bang Kumis and specializes in cooking all the parts of a leg and behind.


The food is laid out and you have to go pick which parts you want, then tell them if you want the clear or coconut cream based broth.



It was alright. I didn't find it all that special but there are people that really love it. Cow tendons, marrow, tail, knee caps and these eggs. Of course, they're not really eggs....



Anyway, the place was pretty shabby, the food only average but the prices STEEP! I just didn't think it was worth it. At least I know now otherwise Richard will continue raving about it....

Power came back while we were out but we got home just in time for another short outage. I just went to sleep.

5 comments:

John A Hill said...

"Of course, they're not really eggs...."

Here they are called Rocky Mountain oysters. Of course, they're not really oysters, either...

Jean-Luc Picard said...

Eggs that are not eggs?

Mike said...

JOOOOHHHHNNNN!!!!!!! Word for word what I was going to comment!!!!

So I'll go to my back up. Amanda, you have A/C?! With a 10 amp circuit feeding your house? It's amazing you have any power at all.

Cynthia said...

OK, you don't find that at the buffets in Chicago;)

Anonymous said...

THOSE LOOK LIKE COW'S BALLS!!