I’m chronically dehydrated.
I’m washing my hair with bar soap.
I’m sleeping on a 50 year old mattress from my childhood.
I feel like I haven’t eaten a proper serving of vegetables in over a week.
But tomorrow, I head home!
First though, we celebrate my sister’s birthday with dinner at Damas, a top-notch Syrian restaurant in Montreal.
Mom peruses the various dips: red pepper, eggplant, and chickpea.
Mom and sis and the grilled shrimp and octopus.
The kibbeh and the rack of lamb (mom’s favorite).
Sis blows out the candle on her birthday candle before moving on to our dessert medley: pistachio ashta ice cream with Syrian cotton candy, chocolate halva ice cream with kataifi, and cheese kanafa.
A good time was had by all. Tomorrow, it’s pork chop lunch and then a 1:50 flight back to – if the weather reports are to believed – rainy Toronto. But I’ll take it!
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It all looks so yummy. sigh Jealous. kataifi is yet another treat I deeply miss.
A Very Happy Birthday to Andria. xo
Hope you said Hi to Buddy and Mrs Buddy
from all of us. (Gosh! I’m amazed you still haven’t thought
up a good revenge prank to pull on him to even the score
for his, now years ago, used band-aid in the Chinese food prank).
That train station coffee cafe photo shot looks beautifully small town idyllic.
Like a scene Norman Rockwell could have painted back in the day.
Safe flight home tomorrow, Joe.
Happy Birthday Andria! The food looks amazing! Great pictures!
“There’s no place like home” 👋🏻
ON mange aussi avec nos yeux!
Aside from your dehydration, questionable hygiene, dull body aches, and malnutrition, I’m glad you got to visit and take care of your mother and celebrate your sister’s birthday. I’m sure Andria appreciated her get-a-way and the special dinner looks delicious. Akemi and Sharky will be happy to see you again. Overall a great week! Thanks for letting us tag along!
Looks like a great birthday dinner! Have a great trip home!