Tonight we had pizza for dinner. I had asked the guy that works in the bookstore on campus where I could get a pizza and he said Rick's Cafe was the best.
I caught the 4:50 bus out to the gas station to catch the Mont Tout bus to Food Fair where the pizza is but the Mont Tout bus doesn't stop there. Nope. No big deal. I caught a city bus.
The bus didn't go straight toward St. George's but instead went around IGA and I got to see the Payless Shoe Store that's being set up. Cool! But sometimes these buses wait around for people to come out and need them even with 7 people already in there waiting to go. Whatever.
Finally at Food Fair I found Rick's Cafe. $33EC for a medium cheese pizza. $5EC extra for each topping. Ok. While I was reading that, the cashier was reading my shirt giving me the stink eye then she told her friend to read my shirt too so they could both have a little laugh together. ?? It says, "Not all who wander are lost." I'm guessing they don't know Tolkien.
Ordered, took my order to the pizza people. 15 minutes he says. Okay. So I went to a cool shop next door with some fun little things. Good ideas on things to make and nice little coconut spoons and green rock rings.. Not jade but she didn't know what they were made from. Back to the pizza guys. A nice guy came out to see my number, said ok, then went back. Do I go to the window to get my pizza when I think it's ready? So after over 20 minutes I did and he said a little bit longer. 10 minutes or more longer and I had my pizza. At least I had some Sia while waiting. One two three, one two three, drink.
Right when I walk outside I am attacked by mosquitoes! Good thing the chikungunya virus isn't around. But what about dengue?? Ugh.
A bus pulls up full but one person gets out and I can squeeze in. Yay...
Again I picked a bad bus that went off the usual path and we turn down a weird road for a bit. Ok. I ask if we're going back in case this was a different way into St. Georges. We are. I had to get out a few times to let people sitting next to me out. Crazy.
Finally we were on my street so I pay the guy. Bad idea. They don't take me the whole way to my hill. Calliste is written on their windshield! The money guy got out and said we were there and I told him I'm going to Calliste. Then he said something about last junction blah blah blah. No. "So you're not going to take me the whole way?" Ok.............. Now I've had it. I shouldn't have paid him until I was there.
It's 6:15, already dark out, I'm holding a pizza box that's falling apart, too hot to touch the bottom of it, and I'm getting eaten by bugs that could kill me! Not really but get me sick! Now I have to speed walk home.
My sweat, blood and tears went into getting our Thanksgiving dinner. Sweaty bus rides and walk home, blood being sucked by mosquitoes and I had a good little cry when I got home. Fun.
I'm not complaining, I'm over it now. I just thought it was a funny little story about our awesome Thanksgiving meal. Also, I am the only white person this whole trip. So I'm getting stares and experiencing what it is like to be the minority.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Next time, I'm bringing Tom.
