Eastern Week!
I often forget that this country has a lot of Catholic related festivities. Eastern is one of those! Wehn I was younger, as soon I went to live on my own, I stopped paying attention to such events.
In Mexico, I remember having a tradition of painting hollow eggs, filling them with glitter and confetti, and crushing them on our friends’ heads. I remember it been quite fun.
For easter here at the office they brought chocolate easter eggs! A friend recommended that I chose this creme filled egg. I found quite strange how similar it looked to an actual egg yolk, but it actaully tasted pretty good! I will say though, just one egg is more sugar than I probably need in a whole week.
Hurstpierpoint
For the past few weeks I’ve been wanting to get together with some really good friends that we got to meet last year here in Brighton. I was particularly very excited because I wanted Naga to meet Alex’s rescue dog, Fozzie. The thing about it is that they live in a small village north of Brighton called Hurstpierpoint. It is about a 45 min bus ride from where we currently live, so it required a bit of preparation.
Earlier last month we meant to go up there but that’s when we got sick two times in a row and we had to cancel until we felt better. Well, I’m happy that the time for our visit finally happened last Friday!
Initially we meant to all go visit, and by all I mean Sofi, Naga, Saki and I. The only worry we had was that Saki is still super nervous and reactive around other dogs. Specially when they are close to Naga. So, to start testing the waters, Naga and I went on a solo adventure up there.
My friend Jack was very kind to offer taking us up there on his car. He also lives in Hurstpierpoint, so it was a good way to all get together!
We met at a new Film Shop called Chemistry Film Lab. They had an expired film sale for their opening weekend, so we went to grab a couple film rolls.
The film shop is located about a block away from the beachfront, so we took some time to sit by the sea while we waited for Jack. I am still amazed that I live so close to the sea. I often forget that this was a childhood dream of mine.
When I was in elementary school I really wanted to live by the sea in the UK. There was something about always having rain that made it so enticing to me living in a city where we barely got any. It’s funny how live works out sometimes.
After meeting with Jack, Sofi went on to do some shopping while Naga and I went on our way to meet Fozzie.
Hurstpierpoint is such a lovely little village. You can definitely feel the peace and quiet being there. We met with Alex at a coffee shop that is right in the middle of the main intersection of the village. They were all very happy to meet Naga. And, who wouldn’t. She is the loveliest <3
The plan was to meet without Fozzie first so that she didn’t get jelous of Alex paying attention to Naga. After the cafe we went to pick up Fozzie and headed to the park that is nearby Jack and Alex’s old place.
Fozzie is much bigger than I expected! For some reason I compared her in size with our Saki, but she is about a few kg bigger. I even think that Fozzie and Saki have a very similar face. They have very expressive human eyes. Although, unlike Saki, she has a very impressive repertoir of tricks she knows! I was so amazed by them.
One of the things that I loved the most about this park is that there are almost no car roads that go nearby. In more recent years, Naga has become very scared of loud noises. It has gottten to the point where she can get scared of fairly loud cars. So, being in a quiet and car free place I think it was a good way for her to enjoy herself.
Since the park was big enough for Naga to be off leash, we played catch just like when we lived in our first apartment in Colombia.
Fozzie coming back from catching her frisbee. LOOK HOW HAPPY NAGA LOOKS AHHHH I love when she takes this pose. She looks so cute! The first time in a while that I’ve seen her ears flop like this when she is running. We had such a great day.
Long, long weekend. Chill, chill days.
One of the best parts of this long weekend is that I feel like we finally got time to just do nothing. With the move, starting in new teams, adjusting to the language, I feel like we’ve been in constant survival mode. So, other than our adventures with Naga, we just stayed home for the rest of the weekend.
What I love about the place where we currently live is that it is close to a lot of very good restaurants. One that we have been meaning to go to is Moksha. Moksha caffe that is next to St. Peter’s church with with very, very good breakfast food and a very chill ambience.
We are trying to find more positive ways to do things we kind of dread to do, such as talking about our finances. Coming into the UK we knew that we needed to be more on top of our money since the cost of living was much higher than in Colombia.
So, turning talking about this into a date I think it was a great decision! Our end of the month finances date at Moksha. 🥞
Our anniversary is next weekend, so I am very looking forward to it! Growing up with her has been such a priviledge and pleasure.
We spend the rest of our weekend watching Smosh videos snuggled up on the couch with Naga and Saki. It’s amazing what a good weekend can do to restoring your energy.
Naga is still tired.
Naga refused to sit away from us. Look at that stretched face!
Well, that’s the end for me today. I’ll be back next week with more stories!
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