Yesterday, we, wait, its really windy here and super cold, and i am in slight anticipation of my first snow. but i am glad i came prepared for the cold, i have been walking around in my colorful (read cool) socks which boi doesnt much appreciate esp for public viewing but i have way too many of them and plus i louw them, wth.
yesterday we got here about afternoon, had a brilliant afternoon losing our way to the hotel.
socks:
I showed boi one Hyatt and told him how important my loo issues are and how we should just check in there as opposed to the one we had booked. Pee issues always makes me lose my mind. We finally found the place, i found ie, i usually say am bad with directions, its easier this way cos i am under no pressure then and i can just sit back and point out faults :/ though with boi i dont do this as much as i like to as i do with my dad.
with dad he takes it terribly personal and makes sure that i understand how losing one's way is "good" cos we find all kinds of other ways to get to the point and see places. uhm. see how that can be a problem?
Boi on the other hand looks very distressed and so i emerged from my settled-into-seat-on-cushion hiatus and found us home.
After which we headed off to this korean place Bois's friend had recommended. It was a pretty cool place and we had the pork barbecue on the table with some sticky rice and curry. It was all very yumm, i definitely prefer korean food any day over chinese or even north indian. Not kerala though :/
Food:
we wanted to go to the cheesecake factory afterwhich but got lazy and headed back home. I had some horrible cramps showing up so we took a small nap and got ready and headed out around 5ish in the evening. Boi made detailed plans how to get to this kerala restaurant we had found online and the Malayalee store for some stash to take back home.
At this particular traffic circle we were to take the second exit, i dont know what we were thinking or how we managed but we lost our way three times. We went around and around and finally asked at a gas station who said that the first road we took was right! So much for the directions. Plus here is a masterpiece: boi cant see much in the dark (this ideally requires a whole post devoted to it) but basically he lost his glasses and hasnt bothered buying new one's and its thus a brilliant show at night driving around me yelling this road, this way etc. I hate driving in the rain plus i am on a international license thing till december 1st week so best i dont get us caught.
we finally found the restaurant and to our happiness it had some good stuff left, we picked the kappa (tapioca) and beef fry. Though i make it at home its still kinda exciting to eat it outside,they also had mutton biriyani but we are sensible folks who knew that we would never finish that whole carton, it was seriously huge, not to mention expensive.
There was king fish curry too and my mind was pulling in all directions but boi finally picked it out and we were paying when the uncle-old-man person asked me if i wanted cutlets, i am very excited now and say yes, yes please! Boi says old-man-uncle looked at both our faces and decided that she is the one likely to be spending his money. :/
cutlets were yumm which we polished off in the car, boi asked if i liked eating in the car,i mumbled sure! what was wrong, cutlets,car, even rain outside,perfect. Boi said he needed atmosphere. To make up i gave him some more of mine!
Boi had found this hookah place he wanted to check out, quite close to schaumburg, so we could just pop in and hooka-fy and head home, eat our dinner and watch a movie. He said, if i find it even least bit sleazy we wouldnt stay,which is odd cos i dont care much even if its slightly sidey,i guess he meant he wouldnt stay, :) but it turned out to be a pretty decent place with this guy,owner, who was quite friendly with all his jokes, we had some strawberry hookah and some apple juice and persian tea for boi. Since we are both newly quit smokers, about two years now, i stopped counting a while back which is apparently a good sign, so hookah is all we got.
But i am not a huge fan of it, i feel nothing much not the hit that comes from a ciggy and i dont care much for the flavors. Boi dint feel too good towards the end and we left early, thought of stopping for some Margarita's but it was raining quite heavily so we finally got home. Had the relatively yumm dinner, we both agree mine is better.ha.
That was day 1.
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