Food, etc.

I mentioned at the end of my last post that I would be going out to eat Ethiopian food with some friends. It was a very interesting experience.

They give you a plate of squishy, porus bread that is very thin. You rip a piece off with your hands, and, using your right hand (using the left hand is impolite for a reason our hosts did not want to explain), you dip it into one of several sauces, or pick up chunks of the sauces. The sauces are in a giant basket plate thing that has more of the special bread on it. Around the edge are things like peppers, spinach, beans, and cottage cheese. It was very good. Especially the lamb.

Anyway, after the restaurant, the friend who invited us's parents mentioned that they had desserts at the house, including cheesecake and chocolate cake. We went back and ate. Parents started arriving, but they got to talking with my friend/host's parents, leaving us with time to goof around.

Let me just mention that all of us read a lot. Especially fantasy and sci-fi.

It started (innocently?) enough with a question posed by the girl sitting next to me. "Can a vampire get drunk if he sucks the blood of a drunk person?" We discussed that one for a while, deciding that it was possible. Then, things moved on to issues such as would a troll bitten by a vampire be a vampire-troll after it died, or if a vampire bit a werewolf while it was in wolf form, would it be a vampwolf after it died, or if a fairy, troll-vampire, and werewolf were riding on the back of a drunk unicorn, and all of them were eaten by an owl, what would happen to the owl. By the time our parents stopped talking long enough to look at their watches, we were laughing very hard. The friend/host's brother came in and talked with us for a while, saying that our conversation was much more interesting than the one being had by our parents.

Anyway, it would make more sense if you were there. Maybe.



Darn. Spell check isn't working again. Please forgive any and all misspellings. They are only partially my fault.