"What I Cooked Today" Day 200

It seems like only yesterday when I prepared the 100th edition of this weblog in Brussels with Anna and Danielle. Today's 200th edition is, sadly, not so much about food, believe it or not (which I hope to make up for tomorrow and which you'll hear more about, well, tomorrow), because a lot of other things happened today that kind of took over.

It was another gruelling day today by all means, even though I was quite grateful to be able to spend so much time with my mans. Jochem and I got up pretty early, biked to Utrecht Central Station, took an overloaded train from sunny Utrecht to grey The Hague, and took a tram to the rich and beautiful embassy neighborhood of town. We arrived at the Indian embassy quite early to avoid lines. However, there was a line. Luckily, the nice people at the embassy let us in to protect us from the cold. I had been dreading this day for a long time, pretty much ever since I started this visa application, partly because I had to go to the embassy myself to apply and collect my visa. Although the overall ignorance and rudeness of my fellow countrymen was very annoying, we were quickly able to leave again with an appointment for 4 PM to pick up our visas.

So far, so good. We then tried to make the best of our day by revisiting some of our favorite places in the city. We took a long walk to Scheveningen, although we skipped our walk on the beach since it looked like there were pipes being drilled there (?) and by then it had started raining. Then we had lunch at Toff, where we shared Thai noodle soup, naan with yogurt dip and a Thai hambuger for lunch. After that we took a tram to the Omniversum to see a show called The Greatest Places, which took us on a one-hour trip around the world.

After some drinks it was time to head back to the embassy, where we arrived drenched. We proceeded to stand in line again, outside, in the wind and rain, until we were let in again. After being annoyed by my countrymen again for a considerable amount of time, we finally got it: our Indian visas!

Jochem, poor thing, had to rush to Amsterdam to work (seriously), and I went back home to a windy, rainy and, overall, stormy Utrecht where I had pizza and chocolate cookies in bed. No, not the homemade ones, the ones from the supermarket. I was just too tired to even care enough to boil some rice for our leftover Thai curry.

Which is why I am finally ending this long post and am going to do some yoga, read some Twilight, and then sleep. But YAY!!!