1st Weekend in Vevey

Quick recap of my first weekend in Vevey (quick coz I didn't do much, mostly stayed at home).


Saturday 


Arrived at Geneva's International Airport on Saturday morning (landed around 7am). Though it's an international airport, I didn't find it impressive at all. In fact only 4 passport control counters were open and the queue was ridiculous (same goes for the check in queue). Finally emerged through the arrival gate around 8am and waited for Mi Amor. The waiting was kinda entertaining coz the airport allows owners to bring their dogs in so I had fun looking at all the cute dogs in the airport.

Reunited

It took about an hour to drive from the airport back to Mi Amor's place (well now it's OUR place :D ). 

After taking a shower and cooking lunch (chicken cordon bleu with mushroom gravy), we went for a walk around the area. It was a bright sunshiny day and according to Mi Amor, it was the best weather they've had in a while (maybe I brought the sunshine with me?heh. Though I was looking forward to some snow since I haven't seen snow since I was a kid).  We also went grocery shopping and I mean the proper onions and veggie kinda grocery shopping not just snacks and junk food (believe it or not it was our first time as a married couple doing this kinda shopping...I felt so grown up! hahah).

Took a walk by the Lake Leman (also known as Lake Geneva)

There's still some snow on the mountains across the lake...if I'm not mistaken the place across the lake is called Evian 

Look who we spotted also walking by the lake 

Coming over to say bonjour!

Look, I made a new friend!

Maybe they should change the name of the lake to Swan Lake since there are a lot of swans around

Besides swans there were also ducks and some other bird species

The Food Museum

According to Mi Amor this fork sculpture is to symbolize the Food Museum in Vevey

A statue of Charlie Chaplin. He died in Vevey and his stolen corpse was found near Lake Geneva 

Was too tired to have dinner and fell asleep around 7pm. 

Sunday 

Woke up at 1am in the morning. Couldn't sleep so I kept myself busy by:

• making myself a sandwich to eat
• reading a book 
• cleaning up the living room 
• sharpening all 6 knives in the kitchen ( Only psychos and people suffering from jet lag sharpen knives in the middle of the night)
• surfing the web
• cooking nasi lemak for breakfast

When Mi Amor finally woke up around 11am, we had breakfast/brunch and I continued cleaning the house while Mi Amor watched footie. While going through Mi Amor's cupboard to fold and arrange his clothes to make more space for his other clothes, I came across something which got me excited. I showed Mi Amor what I found and he was upset coz apparently I spoiled his suprise (well, if he had folded and arranged his clothes in the first place, I wouldn't have gone through the cupboard :P).

I cleaned the spare bedroom as well and after I was done with that, we watched the movie Scott Pilgrim vs the World and I FINALLY fell asleep around 4pm (not so much coz of the boring movie but mostly coz I was awake since 1am). Unfortunately it was just a short nap and I was awake again by 6pm.  

After cooking and eating dinner, we continued with the boring movie and we were in bed by 11pm.

Monday 

Woke up around 2am, was bored so decided to change my blog's template (which took forever coz I have no idea how to use this MacBook Pro) and surfed the net for entertainment. Became a human alarm clock and tried waking Mi Amor up for work (he kept hitting the snooze button, i.e asking me to give him another 5 more minutes..... took about 45 minutes for him to finally wake up).

After Mi Amor left for work (around 9am), I started planning today's lunch and decided to make shrimp and mussel aglio olio pasta. Started cooking around 10ish (I know it's kinda early to start cooking lunch but I need all the time I can get since I'm still a cooking newbie). Finished cooking and cleaning everything by 11ish and Mi Amor came home for lunch at 12pm.

Now I'm just watching some movies and trying to stay awake to readjust my body's clock. I'm starting to look like crap thanks to this erratic sleeping pattern (it isn't helping that I'm also breaking out coz my period is due this week) and I'm ashamed to bump into Mi Amor's colleagues ("THIS is your wife that you've been waiting for?!?"). 

God please make me look better by this Wednesday (coz I'll be joining Mi Amor for dinner with some of em'). In the meantime, I'm laying off em' choccies (not an easy thing to do when there are boxes of choccies laying around the house I tell ya!).