Be careful what you wish for

The passport with it's new Saudi visa arrived on Thursday so plans were afoot to get my beloved out of Country and into the desert, this turned out to be difficult for some reason, until that is I found a flight and he emailed it across to the money people.  Our evening was spent in the company of the Dark Lord at the local Indian Restaurant, have I said we like a bit of spice.  My beloved did his usual 'make mine hotter please', and then spent his meal huffing and puffing till every last morsel was finished, I on the other hand took a couple of delightful dishes and suffered not.

Friday and we had lots to sort out, and a case to pack for two months, this took most of the day and some of the evening for my beloved that is as he is soooo fussy, I left him too it, now it didn't take all of the day and some of the night, just some of the day and a little of the night, with many coffee breaks and pitstops along the way. One pitstop was spent in the second hand book store, where we both purchased heaps of books at ridiculously low prices, the great thing is you get discount when you take them back, so in reality my books cost nothing and my beloved's five or six were around 20euro for the lot, now I would have put the euro sign in there but I can't find it on my mac and truly I can't be bothered to look for it.

Friday night was spent in a new restaurant for us, Zen room which is part of the Chester's uptown chain down on the front, a touch expensive but absolutely worth every penny spent, the food was mouthwatering, the presentation was like starbursts in my eyeballs and the service was absolutely 100% spot on, the Wakame soup was almost thrown down my neck mainly due to the fact that it was last eaten in Israel and is one of my most favourite dishes to eat when doing Japanese, Soft shelled crabs with salsa tickled my beloved's tastebuds and sent him into rapture, but the best was yet to come, we decided to order from the Zen menu and each dish was named after a flower, I chose the Lotus flower which was a dish of chicken and king prawns, with rice and sautéed vegetables, my beloved chose Snow Willow which was a dish of lobster tails and Argentinian beef, both our dishes arrived and obviously photos had to be taken, then it was time to savour our dishes, my first chopstick full was the sautéed vegetables, I thought I had died and gone to heaven the crunch of the vegetables the taste on my tongue the half hour it took me to get a carrot on the chopstick, it was pure seduction on a stick. Once I dragged my chopsticks away from the veg it was onto the chicken and prawns, wow is all I can say, I'm glad we saved this restaurant temptation until my beloved's last night because it was truly something to remember.  Oh yeah I was forgetting because I was remembering the vegetables zinging on my tastebuds - my beloved's meal was equally as impressive and his Argentinian beet fillet rolled over my tongue and sent me into fillet overdrive, it's been a while since we had good beef here and that Argentinian stuff was the way to go.

Saturday arrived and we went back to pick the truck up before my beloved tucked in the last of his shirts all neatly stacked (you would think he was a professional), then it was time to head off for Larnaca airport and wave goodbye to each other for the next couple of months. Oh did I mention we had to cancel Souvla (hooray), what a shame, the necessary people were informed (hooray) and that was the end of that, it's just a shame my beloved had to go away to get it cancelled. It's not that we don't like Souvla you understand, it's just that we also like peace and quiet sometimes and some of our Cypriot friends have no understanding of that WHATSOEVER!

Stitch and I said our goodbyes to our beloved and headed home, Stitch to lay on his sun bed and myself I laid on my own and read my book baking in the sun whilst my beloved jetted off to pastures new.

Sunday was spent once again sunning myself and reading my book I am loving the new author I found thanks to Maor, and am now reading my way through her works, oh and I have one other author called Saskia Sarginson who's book called Twins will be my next read so as not to get fed up with Jodi Picoult. 

I have started eating healthily now my beloved has left, the man is a nightmare with snacks, and has to be fed every couple of hours, it's actually quite nice to only eat three times a day and so now I'm eating Paleo which entails no dairy, no grains, no DRINK, no legumes but plenty of veg, and meats and fruit within limits, I expect to be wafer thin by the time I see him again(yeah right).

Poor Stitch was bathed ready for our special visitor this Wednesday, well he needs to make a good impression doesn't he! The only way I could keep him in the sink was to smear cheese along the sink edge to keep him amused whilst I lathered him up and then poured the water from the basins all over him, and might I say he smells rather lush.....

Waaaaaay look what I found €