I had a lazy morning while Del went to the barber shop down the way for a hair cut. The man had worked in Washington for a few years and then come home to take over his uncle's shop when he retired. The uncle had opened up in 1956. The haircut looks good.
After lunch made up of our leftovers from last night's dinner, love that fridge, and a nap, we walked down to get a tee shirt for Del and a earth friendly cotton outfit for me. Earth friendly is more expensive that the local tee shirt store but the lady gave us orange juice and a bottle of dead sea hand lotion. Her story was interesting. She said she was born into business because her father was a furrier. She had wanted to go to college to study mathmatics, but she would have had to go to Athens or Salonika, far away and her father would not allow his only daughter to go so far from home all by herself, especially since she would just marry and raise children.. So she married and has four children and instead of furs has a store that sells earth friendly clothing, cotton, bamboo, hemp, linen and silk with no harmful chemicals. I suppose they do have to boil the silk worms to death, but that doesn't hurt the environment, I guess, and silk is beautiful. My outfit is cotton. Her two oldest are girls and are each away at university, one studying math, physics and nanotechnology and the other literature and philology. I had to look it up. Philology is the study of literature, history and linguistics and nanotechnology is manipulation of matter at the atomic and molecular level. I guess it must be gratifying to see daughters do what you hoped to do but couldn't because of the times you grew up in.
Aftr shopping, we went down to the aquarium. It is small, but quite interesting in design. You go downstairs and wander through rock corridors with little windows in the rock walls showing the fiish and critters. The neatest thing to me was a fish that was lying up against an indention in the rock that looked as though it was shaped just for him. He looked like one of those talking fish mounted on the wall. Del owned one of those, you know. I wonder just how much time he spends in that spot. It was a bigger tank, and the other fish just swam around ignoring him.
We put our feet in the sea, but it was a bit cold for me. Del still thinks he might try bobbing before we leave. I saw a lovely bench where I can watch him do that.
We walked back up the hill to our restaurant. I guess the cook had been keeping an eye or an ear out for us because we had hardly sat down when she came out to tell me that the stuffed squid would be ready in a few minutes. It was quite good, and Del had meatballs that were also delicious. She came back out in a bit to see if we were enjoying our meal. As we were finishing dinner, the owner came over with a couple from Albany, NY to introduce the Americans to each other. They sat down and told us about their trip through Turkey and we talked about the Fullbright. The lady teaches Spanish Literature at the university and sounded as though she might well apply for one for next year. The husband is a retired elementary teacher. Emails were exchanged all around.
After lunch made up of our leftovers from last night's dinner, love that fridge, and a nap, we walked down to get a tee shirt for Del and a earth friendly cotton outfit for me. Earth friendly is more expensive that the local tee shirt store but the lady gave us orange juice and a bottle of dead sea hand lotion. Her story was interesting. She said she was born into business because her father was a furrier. She had wanted to go to college to study mathmatics, but she would have had to go to Athens or Salonika, far away and her father would not allow his only daughter to go so far from home all by herself, especially since she would just marry and raise children.. So she married and has four children and instead of furs has a store that sells earth friendly clothing, cotton, bamboo, hemp, linen and silk with no harmful chemicals. I suppose they do have to boil the silk worms to death, but that doesn't hurt the environment, I guess, and silk is beautiful. My outfit is cotton. Her two oldest are girls and are each away at university, one studying math, physics and nanotechnology and the other literature and philology. I had to look it up. Philology is the study of literature, history and linguistics and nanotechnology is manipulation of matter at the atomic and molecular level. I guess it must be gratifying to see daughters do what you hoped to do but couldn't because of the times you grew up in.
Aftr shopping, we went down to the aquarium. It is small, but quite interesting in design. You go downstairs and wander through rock corridors with little windows in the rock walls showing the fiish and critters. The neatest thing to me was a fish that was lying up against an indention in the rock that looked as though it was shaped just for him. He looked like one of those talking fish mounted on the wall. Del owned one of those, you know. I wonder just how much time he spends in that spot. It was a bigger tank, and the other fish just swam around ignoring him.
We put our feet in the sea, but it was a bit cold for me. Del still thinks he might try bobbing before we leave. I saw a lovely bench where I can watch him do that.
We walked back up the hill to our restaurant. I guess the cook had been keeping an eye or an ear out for us because we had hardly sat down when she came out to tell me that the stuffed squid would be ready in a few minutes. It was quite good, and Del had meatballs that were also delicious. She came back out in a bit to see if we were enjoying our meal. As we were finishing dinner, the owner came over with a couple from Albany, NY to introduce the Americans to each other. They sat down and told us about their trip through Turkey and we talked about the Fullbright. The lady teaches Spanish Literature at the university and sounded as though she might well apply for one for next year. The husband is a retired elementary teacher. Emails were exchanged all around.
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