Happy Birthday to my Darling Joel!

Fancy the heat?

Happy Birthday Joel!

Joel's birthday was last Sunday. The first birthday in Luanda, one never forgets, LOL! It was a glorious day. That typical beautiful African sky was out for him... yes yes yes... this beautiful sky does come with considerable heat, but nothing that a good air conditioner doesn't help.

As you know, we are living days of some social restrictions, due to the fact that Carlota has to go everywhere with us... because we never know what kind of traffic is ahead waiting for us therefore never know for how long we will be away from the hotel. So in order to avoid more stress than we already have, we had to celebrate it more humbly, e.g., with Carlota on board.

We got the car and drove downtown and rode really slowly along the street by the beaches of Luanda Island. After that, we drove to Talatona, the area where we want to live. It was actually quite a good idea. We went for some field trips and ended up, may be, perhaps, who knows, finding ourselves a house. It isn't finished yet, but it should be ready by Aug 1st. Oh... we are so hoping it works out, let's see.

Anyway, as we were in Talatona, Joel, my dear birthday boy, remembered that inside Belas Shopping Mall, there is a "Bob's", a Brazilian fast food chain that takes him back to his teen days... so there we went. However, as we had madam with us, Joel went in, got us our lunch and went back to enjoy it in the car.

This year's celebration was quite different from last year's, when we celebrated it in great style, in Madrid, but quite frankly, not a big drama because although we are talking about a birthday lunch's menu based on Bob's sandwiches eaten inside a car, it had a story to it, it had a context to it... it had its own dramatic reasons, not to mention, a good story to tell future generations, around a fireplace, right?