Long Weekend

We just had a 5 day weekend. It was fantastic. Federal holidays to celebrate Eid-el-Fitri Festival and Independence Day. We went to the beach, we went to some parties, we watched a lot of The Shield, I hemmed my maternity pants, and we had a little get together. I made my first Nigerian Apple Pie and it was delish. Nigerian Apple Pie is much like American Apple Pie, but the shortening for the crust is substituted with butter since I don't know where to get shortening. The apples are from Nigeria and smaller. And the brown sugar is not necessarily light brown sugar, instead it is the only variety of brown sugar I could find. And there was no vanilla ice cream. Only Cookies and Cream. Oh, and the ice cream was $20. Not even for a large gallon, but a little medium sized box. But it was so worth it. Yum Yum.

Then, this morning, I had to finally return to work. The bridge has been closed from the island (home) to the mainland (work). So I've had to take a detour for the last 2 months - that means long long commutes home. Last Friday, it took me 3.5 hours to get home. In any case, the bridge work is finally complete - on time, which is amazing that they delivered in the timeframe they said they would. So the commute should go back to normal. Yay. On the way to work, I saw an okada driver (motorcycle taxi) get into an accident. It was right in front of my house on the main road -- okada drivers are notoriously reckless. This one plowed right into a goat that was crossing the street. Poor dumb goat.