HKG240: Waiting Around Wednesday

q thought it prudent to perform some quality assurance on waffle's airport house. this kid definitely does not have my clausterphobia issues.

today was an odd day...it seems this is a theme for the week, eh. we started off great, skyped with my dad and got some boxes loaded up/addressed and ready to go to the post office...and then i got a call from our real estate agent telling me that they wanted to show the apartment at 2:30. it was about 10:45 at this point. q was also telling me he was hungry. so, i got a few things done, made lunch for q, got a few more things done, made lunch for me, got a few more things done, took q down to play at the playground for a while, got q down for a nap, sat down to terrorize pigs for a while, got a few more things done, woke up q, went down to get sissy from the bus, and then came back and waited. and waited. and scolded the kids away from their toys. and waited. and waited some more. no one ever showed up for this fictional showing. the apartment looks pretty darn great, though. :-) the kids start twitching when they approach the toy box, but i am not sure that's really a bad thing >:-)

late this afternoon, we headed out for sissy's flamenco class and wet market adventures, and then we met up with josh for dinner. after dinner, josh took the kids out for frozen yogurt while i got down to toys r us to get a halloween costume for q. he's going to be spiderman, and sissy's going to be a lady bug.

here's hoping tomorrow is not a repeat of today. i realize that the apartment has to be shown to be leased, but i am not a fan of being held hostage to the showings. at this point, the real estate agents do not have keys to the apartment...i hope to remedy that issue tomorrow!

oh, yeah...i promised a review of our chocolate cake from awfully chocolate...IT WAS AWESOME! it definitely wasn't as rich or sweet as cakes in the u.s., and the frosting was this delightfully light/moussey consistency, but it was scrumptious. other cakes we have gotten here taste VERY strange...they have little to no sugar in them, and the cake part tastes very different...i think maybe it's made with rice flour or something besides wheat flour. it's hard to describe.

this is the type of cake we got, chocolate-chocolate. ours does not look nearly this pretty now...it looks a little bit more like it's been mauled by a bear...or four.