What a Wonderful Life/Wife

Life is great. So here we are living in another country enjoying ourselves. A few weeks ago, our refrigerator started leaking. A few days ago, our microwave just stopped working. On Friday, all of the sudden, there was no water. This is not the first time we have had the water problem. The city just turns the water off without advising the residents. This has also happened with our power. It would be nice to know. After several phone calls, we find out that the water should be turned back on later in the day. That was AFTER I rode my bike home from work. That was BEFORE dinner. Ahhhhh... the joys of living overseas.

What we did find this week, however, was an excellent restaurant not 5 minutes from our house. Apparently a city favorite (U2's Bono has been spotted there). So we make reservations for the day after my birthday (on 1 SEPT if you missed it) for 8pm. Like every other 8pm dinner date, we're the first to arrive at the restaurant. With all of the attention on us, we eat and are done at about 9:20. Not wanting to hose our babysitter out of at least 2 hours work, we stay and chat until 10:00pm when we feel like we can go home.

So there we were at the restaurant... 5 minutes from home... and stalling. Unfortunately there are no good movies out right now and we didn't have any other activity on the list. Dinner was not rushed. Dinner was delicious, and then we just hung out. It was really fun. It was a surprise reservation that Candace made, which is big news since she does not particularly like to talking to people in Spanish on the phone. I have a great wife.