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Skriven 2014-03-24 15:47:08 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 11194 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: weather or not 356
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 21 Mar 14  01:59:00 <=-

 ML>> one wonder why they bothered to settle the place at all.
 NB>> No accounting for tastes... ;)
 ML> Lilli wants our next trip to be Toronto. As Porter Airlines
 ML> has a $190 round trip from Washington, I said that was okay.
 
Toronto is an interesting place...  Haven't seen a lot of it myself,
except the airport... ;)  Although, I was along as accompanist/extra
chaperone on a school choir tour once, and they spent a day seeing a few
of the sights...

 NB>>> Of course, it's her dreams, not yours...  ;)  The price tag would
 NB>>> deter me... though the locale is intriguing...
 ML>> It was my dream as well, but one that constantly was put
 ML>> on the back burner because of cost ineffectiveness.
 NB>> Ah.  
 ML> The farthest north I can get on this planet without hiring
 ML> a dog team or a ski-plane.

That does have a certain appeal...  ;)

 NB>> Not so much that, as he just isn't into travelling...  He used to
 NB>> happily bankroll my share of the genealogy trips I took with his mom,
 NB>> figured it was win-win-win... made his mom happy, made his wife happy,
 NB>> and let him stay home and enjoy time alone...
 ML> That's a good solution for some families.

Worked for us.  :)  Things are somewhat on hold for now... my wanderlust
has to be satisfied (and pretty much is, for now) by my regular trips
for meetings, retreats, echo picnics and family camping... ;)  He used
to enjoy going up to the Pond to veg, less so now that s-i-l is spending
more time there... and his work situation for a while put a damper on
his being away for reasonable periods of time... 

 NB>> That can make folks less amiable, more grumpy, less likely to
 NB>> roll... ;) Good thing there was a burger handy to fill in...  :) 
 NB>> Was the lamb tasty...?
 ML>> The lamb was almost muttonlike but with that odd spongy
 ML>> texture that all gyro meat seems to, worldwide.
 NB>> Ah, was it in a gyro, then, perhaps...?
 ML> Let's see. As I recall the scenario was as follows. We
 ML> needed a bite to eat and were going to maybe check out the
 ML> restaurants nearby, but we walked a few blocks and found
 ML> ourselves in a night market area, with zillions of kebab
 ML> places; one distinguished itself by the delicious smell
 ML> of hardwood smoke, so we parked there. No booze on the
 ML> street, but there were bars within a block if need be (the
 ML> need didn't happen). I got an iskander kebab (layer of
 ML> pita bread, layer of lamb gyro meat, layer of tomato,
 ML> layer of yogurt, sheep butter drizzled over), but Lilli

That sounds pretty yummy...  ;)

 ML> didn't want lamb, so we negotiated for a beef sandwich,
 ML> which turned out to be almost the same meat (possibly the
 ML> same meat mixed with a little beef or chicken) with

Ah...  

 ML> lettuce, tomato, and onion, on a sub (hoagie, hero,
 ML> grinder) roll. She queried somewhat too late if it was
 ML> safe to eat raw lettuce, tomato, and onion; I said it
 ML> probably was, and it was. I had a local soft drink; she
 ML> had bottled water. 

At least it looked more "normal"... ;)  Probably by the time she thought
to ask about the safety of the raw veggies she'd had some already...? 
Fortunate that it was safe..  :)

 ML> The burger was on a separate occasion, after we had escaped
 ML> Turkey (the day before the protests ramped up again).

You've actually had pretty good timing on these latest trips, especially
given the unrest in weather and politics...  ;0

ttyl        neb

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