Moving Day/Retirement Party (june 22)

Today we moved into our new/final apartment. It’s in the heart of downtown and right next door to the Embassy. Unfortunately that means it’s even farther from the place where I work but I’m going to try arranging a ride with one of my coworkers so I don’t have to pay for a taxi each day. The apartment is nice. It’s very spacious but unfortunately I got stuck with the small bedroom again. This time we did rock/paper/scissors to decide who got the master bedroom and I LOST! I was so upset…but it’s okay this room is still nice. The only bad thing about the room is that my freaking shower does not work! After a long night of dancing all I wanted was to come home, clean the shower stall and take a nice, relaxing shower before getting into bed. However…when I turned on the shower to rinse out the soap/bleach no water came out of the showerhead! So I tried turning it off and back on again and still no water! Of course it’s the weekend so I don’t quite know what I’m going to do but I’m calling someone to get this worked out. Back to the story…In true Dominique fashion I rearranged everything in the room and brought a chair into the room from the living room. I kind of feel like an elder with my rocking chair that I sit in at the end of each day watching the children but lol, it’s not a rocking chair and it only faces into my room not the street. Anyways the pictures from the apartment are forthcoming. Fortunately because we were moving I got to leave work at 3p.m. instead of waiting until 5 o’clock. After the move Yolanda and I went to a retirement party for one of my coworkers. We were able to walk there from the apartment as it was only 3 blocks away (not city blocks). We heard the loud music and festivities as we were walking up the street and were pleasantly surprised because we didn’t know it was going to be that kind of party. Nonetheless, we had a great time!!! At first neither of us wanted to dance because we were acting kind of shy but by the end of the night I was on the floor the whole time. They had some food: plantains, rice, cucumber & tomato salad, pork and ceviche. The plantains were cooked in this honey-like sauce that was really good. For a frame of reference, imagine yams at Thanksgiving in the cinnamon/honey sauce…yes, quite tasty! Ceviche is a kind of fish…don’t quite know what…but it’s also a very good and common menu item down here. You can eat it on saltine crackers. It wasn’t a full buffet to make you stuffed but good food nonetheless. The dancing was SO MUCH FUN! Now yall know I don’t really know how to salsa or anything…but I was funkin the heck of it lol :-) All in all it was a very fun evening out and I’m glad we went.