Ice People and Jinja House

Two weeks in a row I've gone to Smith's in White Rock to stock up on fruit and vegetables. I'm enjoying the experience. It's giving me more variety than I would get at Vitamin Cottage.

Of my Smith's buys, today I roasted more asparagus as well as Sun Bella bagged, brown mushrooms and an eggplant. The eggplant was turned into baba ghanouj. I'll have some asparagus and mushrooms tonight along with some frozen mussels we picked up at Albertson's yesterday.

I managed to get by with only a stop at Albertson's in Santa Fe. Spouse says it's more expensive than Smith's. We did pick up some wonderfully fresh strawberries and cut up pineapple to make a strawberry-pineapple fruit salad. Spouse says he wouldn't have bought the cut up pineapple if he had realized it cost $5.99 but it was worth it!

We saw Ice People at the Screen in Santa Fe. We enjoyed it but it left lots of unanswered questions. A book to go along with the movie would be helpful. For instance, it showed two of the geology students walking around, one with a GPS and another with a backpack that had some kind of antenna rising up out of it. I assume that they were mapping but that's never explained. At one point when those two are approaching the other geology researchers, one comments that here come the moon people. What in the world does that mean?

I thought it was interesting when one of the geologist talks about how dirty you get out in the field and when you first take a shower back at McMurdo, you see these round, waxy, white balls dropping off which are the dead skin that is being removed.

After the movie, we ate a late lunch at Jinja House. I ordered two appetizers - the Tokoyo Crispy Tofu and Seasonal Vegetables Stir-Fried. It was good but next time I'll ask if they can make the tofu soft. I think they deep fat fry it even though the menu says lightly fried (which I thought meant pan-fried). I put a whole piece in my mouth when it first came to the table and it was absolutely molten inside. Spouse ordered Shaking Beef and liked it. It came with spinach, cucumber salad and fried rice.

Today we were going to hike Potrillo Canyon but I took so much time making things in the kitchen and preparing and eating breakfast-lunch that I decided to walk this evening. The weather is beautiful here so it will be very pleasant tonight.