Actually, there are several bar-b-que places here in Aiken, but only one of them cooks their pig in the pit just as I described. The others cook them in their kitchens just as I do sometimes….when there is nobody around to run to Carolina Bar-B-Que.

Our weekend was all sweating and gasping (and trying hard to avoid panicking on my part). In this part of the world we are not used to temperatures like that combined with high humidity. I can cope with the heat (though the houses usually don’t have air conditioning) but the humidity gets me down.
Coming to the “panicking part”: my French oral exam is scheduled for next week on Tuesday including two translations (one into German and the other into French) and questions on civilization and economics. Thee point is that my teacher told me it will depend on my second translation wether I will graduate or not! (Because one of the written tests was not quite as good as requested and with the oral exam I can – hopefully – compensate that)

Your face while you’re eating that sandwich is hilarious!

Jess

I can’t wait to hear that new CD!

As for my weekend, I seem to be following a pattern the last month—-one Sunday, I spent the day in the hospital with my granddaughter. (
She’s home and fine now.) Then the next Sunday, I took my mom to the hospital ER and stayed with her all night waiting to be seen. We arrived at 1:30a.m. and she saw the doctor at 6:30—-five hours later. (She’s fine now too, but I missed seeing Dog, The Bounty Hunter in person. But I didn’t tell Mom that! She’d feel badly.) And yesterday, my hubby sprained his ankle and tore a tendon and we sat in the E.R. together, reading way outdated magazines and eating dinner from a vending machine! Next Saturday night, I’m gonna pack a little tote bag with recent magazines, protein bars and fruit, and my little hand held Yatzee game…….just in case!

That is SO COOL to have a golf course in your back yard!!! My husband and I used to golf a lot, but the kids came along and took over our spare time!

This weekend I entertained 15 six year old mermaids and surfers in Leamington Spa – which is about as far away from the sea as you can get in the UK! This was Hannah’s leaving/early birthday party. We will be living hundreds of miles away when she actually turns 6 so we promised her she could have a celebration with her friends before we go. It was fun, we went rock-pooling (in the paddling pool) and digging for buried treasure (in the sand pit). We also decorated party bags with lots of sea themed pictures and stickers, and made mermaid finger-puppets. We played flap the fish, musical mermaids and sleeping sea-turtles and ate a lot of pizza and ice cream. It was, I have to admit, slightly chaotic, but Hannah had fun and that was the point of it all.

The weekend before of course, was Beth’s 4th birthday – so we’d already done it all with 12 4 year old dalmatians and a dog theme, then! I’m kinda pleased its all over with now.

On another note, I’m hoping to see my favourite faroese family tomorrow