The first thing I'm going to do this morning* is to build myself a gyro with the leftovers, photograph it for you, Dear Reader, then eat it for breakfast—something I almost never do. Next, I'll take a shower and get properly dressed, then I'll watch an episode or two of "The Expanse" (finishing up Season 3, the final season on SyFy before the show got picked up by Amazon), after which I'll be meeting my buddy Mike in town (Historic Fredericksburg, where Mike works) to visit a Jamaican restaurant called Pimenta. I plan to have two real Jamaican beef patties plus a jerk-something dish (chicken, shrimp, goat, whatever), and that'll be my meal for the day. In fact, it'll my final meal in the States because I plan to fast before my Sunday flight. So: one meal today (Friday), fasting all day Saturday (the day before takeoff), and fasting on Sunday (until I'm on the plane). After that, the carby airplane meals will again ruin my blood sugar. Yay!
Tonight, Mike's son's girlfriend is coming over to stay the night. From what I've heard, she normally uses the room I'm currently using (one of the daughters' former bedrooms), and though I'd offered to give the room up for her, the parents shook their heads and said that the son and the girlfriend (both college age) would negotiate over sleeping arrangements, with the most likely scenario being that the girlfriend would sleep in the spare bedroom next to mine.
The other thing happening tonight is that Mike and I will watch the movie "The Way" (reviewed here) since we're planning to walk the final part of the Camino de Santiago.
On Saturday, which will be periodically rainy (it's rainy right now at 9:50 a.m. on Friday), Mike and I will visit the site of the Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield (sic: Court House, not the modern spelling Courthouse), which includes a five-point-something-mile loop that we will walk. The rest of the day will likely be spent doing final laundry, packing, talking, and experiencing that winding-down feeling at the end of a trip. It's been good to be back in America, and I'm going to be sad to leave, but another part of me is eager to be back in Korea.
Righto—if I remember, I'll take pics of my Pimenta meal.
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*I've been up since 6:45 a.m., truth be told.
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