29th August 2006

One more day without much happening.

Sat around all day, ate potato chips and played XBox.

We needed to go out in the evening, as Zahir uncle had invited all of us to dinner at a restaurant called Pearl River.

About an hour before we were supposed to leave, everyone needed to take a shower. So we all lined up for the two showers in the house, and waited our turn.

I decided to break in my brand new Oakley slip-ons. They went really nice with my beige coloured trousers.

We piled everyone into our two cars, which was easier getting there than coming back as the van was still out of commission.

The food was quite nice. I had peppercorn chicken, noodles, sweet & sour chicken, some tofu chicken noodle thing, and some beef noodle thing. My favourite was the sweet & sour chicken cos I love it.

It was the first time I had really met Zahir uncle's daughters, Safina and Sorriya, but as per our past encounters, there was little actual interaction between us. They spent most of the evening listening to Sadeeq's quips and anecdotes, which are actually quite interesting.

The journey back was interesting.. We needed to get 10 people into 2 cars, but also leave space for Salim uncle. So 4 of us got into one car, and 6 of us got into the other. I was in the unlucky car with Talib sitting on my lap, making stupid remarks with the other Talib and annoying the hell out of Sadeeq. 10 minutes never seemed so long.

So, the plan for tomorrow? Well, my brother's been given the go ahead to get his iPod nano, which we'll probably get from The Source (yes, that's the name of the store..). As far as our last-day-in-Calgary goes, everything's still in the air about that. I'd feel pretty bad if I didn't get to see Safina this time, as I haven't seen her, face to face, for about 6 years. If we do make the early morning drive to Calgary from Edmonton on Thursday morning, I hope that at least they'll be able to make it to the airport to see us off. Maybe even have a nice fairwell photo or something like that.
That'd be pretty cool.