Good food and Ferris wheels

We had a good day last Saturday – Paul’s birthday. Can’t ask for much more than good food and Ferris wheels. Sunset Café is a landmark, an expat hangout, a warm fuzzy in downtown Baku. AND, they have bacon. Maybe Sunset is what it is, BECAUSE it has bacon. (You with easy access to this most viscerally satisfying food probably can’t imagine what it is to live with out it!). Regardless… friendly waiters and access to maple syrup make this a most perfect breakfast place AND our waiter Rico brought dessert with a candle. Nice touch! 

Ruby caught a picture of this sweet dog with Opal eyes and snappy attire who greeted us on our way out. 

We hopped on the bus to Teza Bazar to pick up some plants to green up our apartment and ended up with a pile of fruit including a bag of fresh ripe green figs. Absheron is the name of the peninsula we live on and Absheron figs are coming into season. I am used to seeing 6 of some kind of dark fig in a plastic box at Whole Foods for exorbitant $/lb. Here the salesman pulls out the stem and squeezes it open and makes me touch, smell, eat and taste – fig after fig. “One kilo…. 2, 3 – what do I want, he asks? Who can say no to this? I think of all the things I don’t know what to do with figs…. and say yes to a kilo.

In the heat of the day we sat on the couch and watched Forrest Gump with popcorn and I thought of all the other things that life could be like besides a box of chocolates, cause you never know what your going to get in SO many situations...

We had dinner at Chinar – fantastic Asian restaurant we had never before been, but are sure to return and walked back home along the Bulvar, a strip of park that runs between our apartment and the Caspian. 

Weekends find the Bulvar full of people, young and old, hanging out, playing music, roller blading, walking hand in hand. I kind of like the impressionist shot I got as a result of not knowing how to all the features on my camera...

The Bulvar also contains the famous Ferris wheel we have been looking at for the past 2 months, longingly - and finally rode.

That and a chocolate bar made it all good!