cravings

So, you may remember an earlier post about our new love for sushi, thanks to our friends Cristina and Charlie for introducing us to it! Turns out, the week they first took us, and we fell in love with it, was also the week I got pregnant, and really it's not such a good idea to eat raw fish while pregnant, nor have your food prepared in a place where they do work with raw fish. So, we had put our sushi cravings on hold until recently, when Marty and Sara sent us a package of all the stuff so we can make our own sushi at home, without raw fish anywhere near!

So this week we got out our sushi book, and gave it a try. As we were preparing it, I got a real pregnancy craving for this crab dip that Tyler used to make, and we already had most of the ingredients, since we were going to use cream cheese and crab in our sushi. Luckily for my cravings, we only live one block from the grocery store, so I sent Elvis out to get the other stuff for the crab dip appetizer, while I started on the sushi. I don't have a picture of the crab dip because it got gone so fast, but thanks Tyler for helping me out in my time of need! =) This was only the second craving i've had while pregnant...the first one was for a tomato sandwich at like 11pm. They have several sayings down here...like, if you don't eat what you are craving when you are pregnant, your baby will be born with its mouth open, wanting that food. or something like that. anyways, here are some pictures of the sushi, which turned out pretty well i would say, for it being our first time.

in other news, all schools and colleges in the country have been closed this past week, due to swine flu. i haven't really heard of that many people getting it, at least no one close to us, but they don't want many people gathering so as to not spread it more. and, this week, the whole country has vacation. so, we both ended up getting 2 weeks of vacation from work and school! you see, each town in el salvador has a patron saint, whom they celebrate once a year with festivals. turns out, here in the capital, we don't have a patron saint, but rather we celebrate Jesus, which is pretty cool. so this week, everybody gets vacation to celebrate the "Saviour of the World", which in spanish literally translates to "El Salvador del mundo". i like that our country is named after Jesus, the Saviour.