Almost Easter with Albarrans

Marisa  Gone Wild

Picking Out Coffee at Fairways

Rami and I are up early, around 6:15, Rami to try his new coffee maker from Williams Sonoma.  It's a coffee maker, very simple, in which you allow a pound of coffee to drip for 12 hours, creating a super concentrated, smooth coffee, which you then add either hot or cold water, at a ration of 3 to 1.  We expected something dramatically different; we didn't get it but it is quite good; it should be as it's my favorite coffee from Fairway,  Salvador pea berry.  Yum

Yesterday morning, we took the walk through the Selleck Woods as my blog from yesterday showed.  Beth was gone all day, so in the afternoon, we went off with Rami to our two favorite stores to stock up on goodies for the weekend.  Fairways, in Stamford, is a great grocery store in a burgeoning development that Rami helped to finance a couple of year's ago and he's now in the process of refinancing much of the bonds again as the interests rates are so low compared to a few years ago.  We picked up some special coffee, olive oil from Greece, balsamic vinegar from Italy, and kashar cheese from Greece, no Turkish kashar unfortunately.  It's funny how we look at trips away from Chautauqua as food and clothing excursions as well as visits to the family; it shows you what Chautauqua area lacks in specialities.  I am also going to go to the Indian food store today, to pick up some ghee, paneer cheese, Indian spices and some different lentils, none which we can get at the lake. Then, on to REI to see if there are any winter bargains, perhaps a stop at Sports Authority, for winter bargains, then home.  I was proud of ourselves for coming out of Costco yesterday without having bought something we really did not need; it's such a temptation when you walk around that store...everything is a bargain except if you don't need it.

Beth got home with Tyler from Bucknell around 6:30 and we had take out sushi for dinner, amazingly good, with lots of different rolls that  I had never had before, all good but it was difficult to know all of the ingredients in many of them.  After dinner, we pigged out on chocolate, a 7 pound chocolate cake from Costco, and chocolates, specifically turtles, which Beth brought back from Bucknell.  We ended up watching some episodes of The Voice, which the Albarrans all follow, then went to bed around 11:00.

It's 7:30 and Marisa is the only on up other than Rami and me.  She is watching Modern Family on her Itouch while Rami is on his IPAD playing poker and I am writing on my blog.  Thank goodness we don't have to talk to each other!