The Weekend and the Whitey Surcharge

The weekends here are on Wednesday and Thursday if I haven't said that already. On Wednesday we went down to catch up with Jo and Laurie again. They'd offered to take us out shopping for house bits and pieces which was fantastic because we drastically needed house stuff and some decent foodage. We had a really great indian dinner right near their compoud and then headed out to the Dharan mall where Jo helped me spend wayyyy too much money on L'Occitaine stuff.

On camp there's a sorta small supermarket called a commissary that I did an initial shop at and I thought that was ok but when I got out to the real shops I realized what a surcharge the people who wont leave the camp to do their shopping get lumped with. Everythings marked up in there an absolutely phenomenal amount. For example, Cherries in the outside shops cost 5 AUD a kilo or less. In the Commissary, (if they stock them) they'd be about 20-25 AUD a Kilo...NUTS and don't start me on the price of meat in there...my god! So needless to say the shops out and about are great. Absolutely massive variety and beautiful fresh ingredients from all over the Middle East. I was like a kid in a candy shop with a visa card.

Jo an Laurie ended up coming out here to see us for dinner and agreed that its really nice here. They ended up making us some much appreciated Sketti Bog and we dragged them out for a walk along the beach. Anthony tried to make them watch Dune at 10 at night when we were both insanely jetlagged and I beat him verily.