House work and cooking

Sunday, Jun 06-2010
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Woke up late and feeling tired after about 4 hrs of hiking followed by Salsa dancing yesterday. I think I lost about 5 pounds. But what an adventure and all new possibilities.

Its been very hot here in the 80(deg F) that is about 28 (deg C). Phew lucky I don't have to experience 40 plus as in India.

Have to focus on cleaning up the house and getting things in order. Another beginner hike organized in the evening near to the downtown park. There is a canadian girl in that too. lets see if I can convince the new group to go out salsa after the hike. ;)

Started off cooking the chicken curry. Then realised that I did not have enough Onions. So went shopping to costco around 1pm and got Milk, onion and a few other stuff.
Partially finished cooking and realised I need to head out for the hike.

Reached west philly or the Farimount garden around 4:15. Met with Jed and Felica (who is the first Canadian I am meeting after my move to Lansdale).
Jed seemed like a walking encyclopedia. And Felica seemed so sweet and down to earth and wanting to bond as canadians. She is been in Philly for about a year

Philly or Philadelphia is Historic to the American Independence and the history of modern day Democracy.

quarter way thru Dena joined our group. We went to the Memorial hall, now a Childrens museum to check out the architecture of the building that was as old as the modern America.

Opposite to the Building people were playing the game of cricket. Most of the people seem to be from West Indies. That was something funny to find a group of people playing cricket in full uniform, wearing all whites. In the middle of Philadelphia. hahaha. Me and Felica were excited and went over there to find out the details. It turned out that they play every sunday.

Then we went to the philadelphia Stars memorial park. which honored the negro baseball league. And went walking thru couple of lakes and Criss crossed the Fairmount garden (which seems to be as huge as the Stanley Park in Vancouver). Jed was very informative about the natural habitat of the plants and giving us information about the different plant families. He was like an encyclopedia.
Its a great place to take a person out on a date ;)

At the end of the walk we all went to a new Classy restaurant in the Philadelphia Technology park.
The restaurant is called LE COCHON NOIR ( The Black Pig). It had a live jazz band playing at 7:30pm.

The food was good, as they did not have Liquior license yet, they gave us complimentary drinks. We all had White wine. (ended up having 3 glasses of it).
Then I ordered Quedila and Glace (fruits, but it was frozen).
The service was the best I ever got to see in my life. There were a few teenage looking girls who came from Ukarine and were working in the restaurant. Latter when I asked how they ended up here, they said that they came here on Student exchange. It was kind of like Evas internship but they end up working as what ever job they get. More like the jobs the 3 french people got in Vancouver.

The best part of the evening was the dissusion, argument and debate with Dina S. Who is basically from New York.

She was arguing like Eva, but with more verbal supporting points and facts. And she did not get angry. Just respected that we had difference of opinion. Wonderful and we hugged at the end. Guess that is the difference in Experience and that of a person who is in control of their emotional issues. OR maybe with time Eva will also learn to control her anger and expression during a debate. Or just that she is passionate about some of the things more.

It was an awesome evening and hope to join up with this group for more as time permits.

Got back home and just crashed on the couch.