How was your weekend?

Some of you ask what I do here on the weekends, so thought I'd give you a snapshot.

First of all, Saturday was one of those random "holidays." There were local elections, and when that happens, there's a law or maybe just a strong recommendation that everyone stay off the roads from 7am until 4pm. So we spent the day inside watching "The Wire." Everyday, we watch a couple episodes from our favorite TV episodes -- just finished watching all 5 bootleg seasons of The Shield, and now we're on to The Wire. We got so far on Saturday, though, that tonight when I get home, it'll be time for the Season 5 Finale. What will we watch after we're done?

Anyway, then on Sunday, we drove to the Mainland to see Yomi's mom and 2 sisters that live here. They don't have speed limits here. Not one sign that shows a speed limit. I think there are several reasons for that - 1) the police don't need a speed sign as a reason to stop you, they can stop you whenever for whatever and they do, 2) there's no reason to abide by a speed limit because there's no recourse if you get a ticket and don't pay it – half the people don’t have addresses, so where will they send the bill? So we go see Yomi’s mom, then each of his sisters. Each sister has 3 kids – lots of kiddies running around. The youngest one, Ayominkun, goes crazy when she sees me. This little girl has so much energy, and when I’m around, it peaks and she doesn’t know what to do with it. It bursts, and she literally runs in circles around the room, screaming, and throwing herself on the ground. It is so funny. So cute little girls says “Aunty Tricia is so delicious. I want to eat her up.” :)

So that’s it. That’s how weekends go around here. Oh, and we fired our cook. He wasn’t doing his job well and he had a bad attitude and didn’t want to work on it, so its back to cooking for ourselves until we find a replacement. So I cooked some on Sunday, too. I made Nigerian sweet and sour pork spareribs. A Nigerian pork sparerib is kind of like Nigerian Apple Pie, referenced below. I make do with whatever ingredients I can find. So instead of sweet and sour spareribs, we had sweet and sour pork chops.


This is us on another weekend...you can start to see my belly showing.....at Yemi's brother's wedding....that's what they do here - Saturday's are for weddings and birthday parties, and Sundays are for visiting family....