Over the last ten months we’ve had some amazing experiences, but we’ve also missed many of the comforts of home. Here are the things we’re most looking forward to:
Food – we’re craving a lot of foods that we haven’t had in a long time:
- breakfast cereal
- properly cooked toast (not just bread; not steamed, dry, or cooked on only one side)
- buttermilk blueberry pancakes
- waffles with strawberries and whipped cream (Christmas morning)
- salads
- vegetables
- peaches
- sushi
- brown bread
- fresh bread with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic, and chilies
- good pizza
- Italian pasta
- lasagna
- fajitas
- a good steak
- turkey dinner (good thing we’re coming home just before Christmas!)
- roast beef and Yorkshire pudding
- barbequed ribs
- popcorn with butter and salt
- Patrick’s oatmeal chocolate chip cookies
- Purdy’s Sweet Georgia Browns
- Dairy Queen Pecan Mudslide
- peach pie (can you get that in December?)
- pumpkin pie (Patrick – I know that I can get this in December)
- good dark chocolate
- tap water that we can drink
- a decent martini (Patrick)
- good coffee (Diane)
- red wine (both of us!)
By the way, we’re available for dinner invitations almost every night.
Also,
- hot showers with water pressure and no exposed electrical wires
- a hot bath
- going to the movie theatre
- seeing any good movies we’ve missed while we’ve been away
- a big screen television (Patrick –how sad it that)
- hockey (Patrick)
- sitting by a warm fireplace
- rock climbing (Patrick)
- our own bed
- running
- our cats (more Diane than Patrick)
- and most of all, our family and friends