We had a very busy Friday. I started the morning like always, making breakfast. When I opened the blinds in the kitchen there were two pheasants sitting on the slopes behind our house. Beautiful birds just nesting on the slopes. Jeff was excited, said they make good eating. LOL They were big birds. Audrey seen the birds and started talking her “bird talk”, then took off running. I think the size of those birds scared her to death!
After breakfast we headed to downtown Aberdeen to see a movie, have lunch and do some shopping. We found the ONLY sushi bar in all of Aberdeen for lunch. I cannot believe there is only one sushi bar in the whole place. We had this confirmed by some of Jeff’s co-workers. It was really good sushi though! And we hit the movies to see the new Terminator movie. It opened here this week and Jeff really wanted to see it. Okay, so the movie theater here was absolutely a treat! They do not have a “box office” like we are use too, where you buy your tickets and then go to concession. You go straight to concession and get your tickets and any treats you want at the same time. First thing the guy ask us was where we wanted to sit, front, middle or back. Jeff tells him middle and I ask if it was assign seating and he says yes, especially for movies that are open weekend and busy. He says that since we are coming during the day of the week that it might not be as busy and we are welcome to change seats if it’s not that busy. LOL I guess when you think about it, it’s actually quite clever. Because in the states for a sold out movie you are fighting to find seats together and typically someone from the staff has to come in and ask people to move together, if it’s near time for the movie to start. Also among all the tasty snacks you have to pick from are hand dipped Ben and Jerry’s ice cream or packaged Hagen Dazz ice cream, a big candy bend of your own selection of yummys by the ounce, of course your usual hot dogs, nachos, etc and the biggest thing of all……………beer and wine!!!! Yes! Beer and wine! How cool is that! So Jeff had a beer and we got the usual popcorn and candy to snack on at the movies. They have “premier” seating as well at this movie theater and these seats are bigger, like sitting in first class on an airplane. We didn’t know about this, so we sat in regular seats. I think the premier seats are a little more. And gosh at movie tickets here. They either don’t have matinee or they prices are the same all day. We paid 6.20 each, which is roughly $9.50. But it was a good movie and we enjoyed the experience.
Driving on the "wrong" side of the roadSince we don’t have our shipment yet, which means no Yukon yet; we are renting a car for the weekend, every other weekend to help us get things done in Aberdeen without having to take the bus all that way. It is really expensive to ride the bus here and we are finding out that a lot of people in Aberdeen and probably all of the UK are complaining about the high bus prices right now. Gas is high here right now, around the equivalent of $4 a gallon?!?!? You pay by the liter here, so when you see it advertised it says usually 1 lb per liter.
They spell some things differently here. For instance color is spelled colour. So in my effort to “absorb” the culture, I am going to start spelling things they way they spell them here. Also, the guys at the office think I will be speaking “Scottish” before too long. That’s my goal!
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