As we strolled down the street Amanda noticed a store that looked a lot like a bubble tea store. She decided to try and order one. The menu was in English and Chinese. She saw something called Strawberry Calpis and decides to try and ask what it was. They (in very broken English) explained that calpis was like yakult?? They showed us a carton of this mystery liquid and we still had zero clue...but, Amanda ordered it....the young girls seemed nice and seemed to remind her of her little sister Michelle Leong. Of course Amanda needed half sago in her bubble tea so she asked the pseudo Leongs if they knew what sago was. They looked at each other and back at Amanda saying, "sago?" multiple times as Amanda kept repeating it too. Finally, she figured she would try some gestures and made small balls with her fingers and said, "balls". The young girls understood!!!! They brought a big bucket over and scooped up a big scoop of...you guessed it....sago!!! then Amanda asked them what they would call it (clearly expecting a Chinese name). Imagine our surprise when they both replied in unison, "tapioca". Hahahahahha!! It was almost as good as a Leong bubble tea, although not slushy.
We spent the entire morning at the coffee shop skyping and whatnot. We finally got word that we move into our new place tomorrow afternoon! Finally! We are so excited to move in and unpack our bags. It has been a bugger living out of our suitcases for the past week. Amanda has been complaining about it everyday so I especially can't wait!
After lounging in the coffee shop for 3-4 hours, we headed down the street to the yoga studio to inquire about classes for Amanda and Kylisha. it sounds like this particular place offers numerous yoga, pilates, and dance classes including Bollywood! You pick a day of the week and you can attend any and all of the classes offered that particular day. It costs just under 40 dollars a month. We continued down the street and ran into a pet store. The store consisted primarily of fish with some frogs, some random turtle and a whack of red eared sliders just like Kaidyn's turtle, except small babies. I think Amanda's plan is to get a baby red eared slider and then release it into the ponds at Flower City park when it is time to leave in 2012. I think I mentioned the turtles that live there in a previous blog. We also stopped and bought hampers, trash cans, cutlery, plates and a shower curtain for the ensuite on the way back home.
We lazed around the pool for 3 hours in the afternoon as the sun was blazing today.
We set out to Old Taipa in search of an Italian restaurant called Poppanos recommended by the new teacher package provided by the school. The mission was a failure, but we happened across a Spanish restaurant called Don Quijote's. English was excellent here. We got free fresh bread, garlic butter, balsamic vinegar and oil, olives and my fave Xmas snack, pickled onions. We ordered some sangria. I wanted the full pitcher and Amanda endorsed the half pitcher. Needless to say the half pitcher lasted not very long. Now a drunk Amanda wanted the remaining half of the pitcher (she wasn't actually drunk.....yet). I must say that the proximity of our home to all these restaurants coupled with the dirt cheap booze has helped contribute to a whole lot of drinking this week!
The food was delicious. Amanda ordered a pumpkin leek soup, which was to die for. Apparently pumpkin is used quite frequently in Taipa. I ordered the seafood paella complete with giant prawns, shrimp, clams, mussels, and numerous baby octopi. There were 6 babies and I managed to eat 4 of them. I felt a little bit bad eating them. Amanda reminded me that they had given their lives for me, so they would have died in vain if I didn't eat them (once again...too much Sangria)!
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