Fajitas

Thursday night, I hosted the girls from my office for a fajita feast at the Foyer.  After spinning class, I rushed home to get all the veggies chopped up and ready to cook.  I manged to get all of the ingredients except for sour cream, but I used quark instead and it worked fine.

At the Foyer, there's not really a doorbell to ring, and since I don't have a Swiss telephone, it was difficult to know when people had arrived at the front door.  I expected people to arrive around 8:30 pm, so I just checked the door every 5 minutes or so to let people in as they arrived.   One of our friends (who is leaving on Saturday and was really the reason for this get together) was really really late, so eventually at 9:30, we decided she probably wasn't coming and we started to eat.  I was amazed at how much food we went through, the fajitas were a hit!  We had pineapple, mango with quark and coconut for dessert, which was quite tasty.  Interns tend to eat a lot of bread, cheese and soup, so I think it was a nice treat to have a meal with so many fruits and veggies.

We were starting to get worried about Eleni, since it wasn't like her to get lost or not show up.  She had sent me a message at 7:15 saying that she was leaving work and was looking forward to dinner.  Since she doesn't have a phone either, we didn't have any way to contact her to see if everything was OK.  I'll admit, I was also a bit worried, but I didn't think we should call the police, as Rachel suggested!   Eventually, we got a message from her saying that she was at home.  She had gotten quite lost trying to find the Foyer and arrived at pretty much the same time we sat down to eat.  We were distracted by the food for at least 15 minutes and didn't check the door during that time, so she gave up and went home.

We felt really badly that she had missed out on the dinner, especially since this was her last night before the end of her internship.  So, we decided to take the dinner party on the road.  We cleaned up the common room, packed up a doggie bag and headed to find our way to Eleni's place.

Broken TPG machine.

I didn't take any pictures of our nice dinner, but I did take this picture of the broken transit ticket machine, in case I got stopped by the ticket takers.  I don't have a monthly pass, so I need to buy a ticket each time.  Luckily, we didn't get checked this time.

When we arrived at Eleni's, she was very surprised and grateful that we had brought her some dinner.  She was walking around Paquis lost for 2 hours, so she was tired and hungry.  It was a nice way to spend the evening, and made me wish that we had done dinners together more often.