A Coronavirus Quarantine Journal, Day Five
Another day in Paradise...hah! Seems what we mostly look forward to is mealtime, and mostly these have been surprisingly tasty. Breakfast on Day 5 was no exception:
Though if we keep eating those delicious, flaky pastries, our waistlines are definitely going to be in trouble! The kitchen seems to have run out of jam, but they've added butter to our bags...just what we need...NOT.
Looks like another sunny day, though fairly crisp temps...55 F (13C) in the early morning, and I never saw it get higher than 65 F (18C) as the day progressed.
Lunch arrived, and it's always a bit of a surprise, since we can never remember what we each ordered. Fortunately there was a clue on the paper bag in which everything arrived: CB and CS. Ross had Curried Beef, which he thoroughly enjoyed, and I had a really good Chicken and Brie Sandwich. The nice crisp apples that came with were most appreciated, too.
I took a pic of Wednesday's menu, so we can remind ourselves what our choices were. Such momentous events are the highlight of our day!
The afternoon was a bit eventful...we seemed to have what sounded like a gaggle of day care toddlers shrieking and carrying on in the hallway. I stuck my head out to check, but as the building is very curved we can only see the hallway directly in front of our room and in front of the room on either side. Nothing visible, but the clamor was coming from the right, further down the hall. My head popping out startled the "hall monitor" sitting to the left of our door, and we exchanged startled looks, with my eyebrows raised and my head tilt to the right indicating what I was trying to check out. The din continued, unexplained, for the next hour or so. I felt sorry for the parents in that room -- imagine being cooped up in a room just like ours with a couple (or three!) toddlers for 14 days!
I did manage to get in a little knitting time, working on the cowl I mentioned yesterday. Felt good to have some yarn-y time...
And then, the highlight of our day: a delivery from Coles! The nice young soldier who delivered our bags chatted with Ross a bit, asking how long we'd been quarantined, and how the experience has been, so far. Very impressive young military personnel, I must say. We had fun unpacking our treats and stocking up the larder. You can't see the grapes, because they are already tucked away in the fridge.
Shortly after, dinner arrived. It was inevitable that we'd have at least one meal that was not terrific, and my dinner proved to be the one exception to the good experience to date: Burger and Fries. But with only two choices (burger and fries or fried chicken and fries), the odds weren't great. Ross loved his Fried Chicken, but agreed the fries were impossible. An odd choice to offer us, really, because how are you going to have hot, crisp fries when you're delivering to 300 people scattered over 11 floors? Burger would have been fine if it had been hot, but lukewarm doesn't really cut it, and the fries were, predictably lukewarm and limp. They looked really good, and no doubt were, half an hour before!
Though if we keep eating those delicious, flaky pastries, our waistlines are definitely going to be in trouble! The kitchen seems to have run out of jam, but they've added butter to our bags...just what we need...NOT.
Looks like another sunny day, though fairly crisp temps...55 F (13C) in the early morning, and I never saw it get higher than 65 F (18C) as the day progressed.
Lunch arrived, and it's always a bit of a surprise, since we can never remember what we each ordered. Fortunately there was a clue on the paper bag in which everything arrived: CB and CS. Ross had Curried Beef, which he thoroughly enjoyed, and I had a really good Chicken and Brie Sandwich. The nice crisp apples that came with were most appreciated, too.
I took a pic of Wednesday's menu, so we can remind ourselves what our choices were. Such momentous events are the highlight of our day!
The afternoon was a bit eventful...we seemed to have what sounded like a gaggle of day care toddlers shrieking and carrying on in the hallway. I stuck my head out to check, but as the building is very curved we can only see the hallway directly in front of our room and in front of the room on either side. Nothing visible, but the clamor was coming from the right, further down the hall. My head popping out startled the "hall monitor" sitting to the left of our door, and we exchanged startled looks, with my eyebrows raised and my head tilt to the right indicating what I was trying to check out. The din continued, unexplained, for the next hour or so. I felt sorry for the parents in that room -- imagine being cooped up in a room just like ours with a couple (or three!) toddlers for 14 days!
I did manage to get in a little knitting time, working on the cowl I mentioned yesterday. Felt good to have some yarn-y time...
And then, the highlight of our day: a delivery from Coles! The nice young soldier who delivered our bags chatted with Ross a bit, asking how long we'd been quarantined, and how the experience has been, so far. Very impressive young military personnel, I must say. We had fun unpacking our treats and stocking up the larder. You can't see the grapes, because they are already tucked away in the fridge.
Shortly after, dinner arrived. It was inevitable that we'd have at least one meal that was not terrific, and my dinner proved to be the one exception to the good experience to date: Burger and Fries. But with only two choices (burger and fries or fried chicken and fries), the odds weren't great. Ross loved his Fried Chicken, but agreed the fries were impossible. An odd choice to offer us, really, because how are you going to have hot, crisp fries when you're delivering to 300 people scattered over 11 floors? Burger would have been fine if it had been hot, but lukewarm doesn't really cut it, and the fries were, predictably lukewarm and limp. They looked really good, and no doubt were, half an hour before!
They delivered two menus instead of one, for some reason, so now we know what we're having to eat on Thursday and Friday:
Shortly after we'd packed up our rubbish and left it outside the door, we had one more visitor: another young serviceman delivering a half-bottle wine, which we'd ordered during the afternoon. Surprisingly, given the excellent Aussie wines available, all they have to offer in the way of wine at the moment is that unpalatable Shiraz Cabernet I mentioned the other day, and half-bottles of a Sauvignon Blanc. We decided to give it a try, and we'll report tomorrow on how it tasted after we sample it with dinner tonight (Tuesday).
And that's the way things roll around here...a thrill a minute!
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