Indian lunch

I spent the day with my friend Krupa - she is the wife of one of Brian's coworkers, Jaysim.  I met her last year when we were here for 2 weeks.  She cooked us lunch, a Indian spiced rice noodle dish that was very tasty but "not spicy" - but was really about at my limit for spicy food.  We watched some Big Bang Theory on a website that has lots of TV show series for free, and for those of you who know that show, we watched the one with the napkin signed by Leonard Nimoy (one of my favorites!). 

We also went to the Freundlich Backerei ("Friendly Bakery") near her apartment that had coffee (since that's my new solution for not taking a nap at 5pm) and this really yummy apple strudel cake thing.  We drew sketches of our countries and noted where mountains, deserts, forests, major cities, etc were located.  I had no idea of anything about India except its near the Himalayas and its pointy at the bottom, and she wanted to see how far Charlotte is from California, and where Niagara Falls is located. 

I took the train back around 5pm to our cool little Wilmersdorfer Arcaden shopping area, and got more groceries including: Mango Juice, Apple Juice, more sausage, water without gas, bread without milk, and chocolate spread without milk (kind of like nutella, but dark chocolate flavored and vegan, which is mildly addicting).  We made beer sauteed sausage, garlic and chili pepper grilled zucchini/carrots, and penne pasta (which we didn't eat much of because I put too much salt in it - oops!) Brian has been ogling over a website for this video game history museum here in Berlin, in which most of the games are playable and date back to Pong from the early 1970s.  I think its a definite for this weekend...