Out of touch

As B and I are recovering from our colds, we have been able to do more around town and after 3 days of not leaving the apartment, I finally felt up to doing some things. Yesterday morning as we were getting ready to head out, we wanted to check the weather online and discovered that neither our cable or internet were working! We had heard it raining some the night before but didn't think too much of it, however this seems to be the cause of the outage as when we were walking to the metro we noticed some men working on the cables. Unfortunately, neither is working yet and today being Sunday, the repairmen evidently are not working. They did, however, leave the downed lines in clumps on the ground in the rain water-very safe! So, B and I are currently at an internet cafe he used a lot during his last visit here.

Without internet or cable at home and with cold and rain outside, we had to find some way to entertain ourselves in the city, so we returned to the Unirii mall where they have what they call "Funland" on the top floor with arcade games and a bowling alley! We bowled a few games and played some ski-ball. It was really fun, though it felt like it was 100 degrees in there! Due to the overheating, we were forced to sample some gelato in the food court- Tirimisu for me and Green Mint for B. It was very good and helped to cool us down. We then went to an electronics store in the mall and bought an S-video cable to try to be able to watch DVDs from our laptop on the TV. Unfortunately, we weren't able to make this work. Oh, well. We can still watch the movies on the computer.

We may try to check out another Christmas market in a bit and then go home and hibernate as it is pretty cold and grey out (no snow) and is perfect for watching movies on the sofa.

Hopefully the internet and cable will be restored soon! -S