There is bad news for the pocketbook. A new Outback Restaurant opened here in Rio, within walking dista
nce from our house! It's bad enough that the mall is walking distance. Now they open an Outback. That just happens to be our favourite restaurant! So today as we lazed around on the day of Proclamation of the Republic of Brazil (did you kn
ow it was a monarchy until 1889?), I decided to make a declaration of independence from cooking. Sissy was taking another college entrance exam, so we went off the mall. I wanted to check out the Outback and lo and behold it was open. I was sure the waiting line would be huge since we hit right at 1:30, pretty much rush hour for lunch here. Since there were just the two of us, we got seated right away. We avoided the temptation of the blooming onion (better shared with lots of people), but we did enjoy TWO loaves of their wonderful bread, since they were slow in serving us. We had ribs and chicken and as we were eating, Sissy arrived to join us. She wasn't too rattled, since this test was for a university she doesn't particularly care for. Still she said the test was really hard. She brought a copy of it and man she was right. I don't think I would have answered one single question... except maybe the English part on the "Alice in Wonderland". At any rate it was nice to celebrate with Sissy and have time to talk as a family. Now it's night and we have drug out all the Christmas decorations and have started that process. We hope to finish tomorrow. We also are taking time to read and I am now on a new book, about narrative preaching. I find I still have so much to learn about transmitting the gospel. It has been a really good holiday for our family. I hope you find time for your own version of "Outback" and enjoy yourself today.
nce from our house! It's bad enough that the mall is walking distance. Now they open an Outback. That just happens to be our favourite restaurant! So today as we lazed around on the day of Proclamation of the Republic of Brazil (did you kn
ow it was a monarchy until 1889?), I decided to make a declaration of independence from cooking. Sissy was taking another college entrance exam, so we went off the mall. I wanted to check out the Outback and lo and behold it was open. I was sure the waiting line would be huge since we hit right at 1:30, pretty much rush hour for lunch here. Since there were just the two of us, we got seated right away. We avoided the temptation of the blooming onion (better shared with lots of people), but we did enjoy TWO loaves of their wonderful bread, since they were slow in serving us. We had ribs and chicken and as we were eating, Sissy arrived to join us. She wasn't too rattled, since this test was for a university she doesn't particularly care for. Still she said the test was really hard. She brought a copy of it and man she was right. I don't think I would have answered one single question... except maybe the English part on the "Alice in Wonderland". At any rate it was nice to celebrate with Sissy and have time to talk as a family. Now it's night and we have drug out all the Christmas decorations and have started that process. We hope to finish tomorrow. We also are taking time to read and I am now on a new book, about narrative preaching. I find I still have so much to learn about transmitting the gospel. It has been a really good holiday for our family. I hope you find time for your own version of "Outback" and enjoy yourself today.
2 comments:
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh look at that blooming onion, have not had that in years,we are on a healthy eating kick and so far so good, believe it or not we are going to the gym also.lol. Enjoy your outback !
Ai, que inveja! Aqui em SJC não tem Outback! Logo agora que saí daí...
Fico lembrando de qdo vc foi para o Canadá e eu ficava contando sobre os restaurantes novos na Uruguai. Lembra? Agora é a sua vez, não é?
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