A beautiful day

Holy moly it's hot outside! A gorgeous day for a walk down to the bakery to pick up a little pizza for lunch and a meat-filled pastry. Yum.

There's this one street that I take to get to the bakery that has my favourite house on it... the front of the house is filled with flowering trees and with the heat and humidity today the flowers smelled sooooooo good...

Thought about more stuff that I miss from home:
- drinking water straight out of the tap! i hate how many bottles of water i'm going through right now... Planet! I'm soooo sorry!!!
- taking walks... sigh. Cotonou is uber-polluted so taking a walk around the block isn't quite pleasant. And if the exhaust fumes don't get ya, the flies and mosquitoes will.
- grocery stores. the markets are fun n' all, but i miss going to ONE store and finding everything I need. Like meat. The market is good if I want to kill my own though! eep! (no, that's not true, you can find ANYTHING at the market... from hair extensions to extension cords to live chickens to carrots and herbs! I FOUND HERBS!!) too bad i don't have a freezer to store the meat in! how do people live with a bar fridge??!
- breathing. Mathieu has a motorcycle and riding around with exhaust in your face is just gross. On a good day Cotonou's air quality is probably like Toronto's when it's been 35° for 4 days straight. barf. someone send oxygen, stat! The beach offers some respite, but going to the beach on my lunch hour is difficult on account of getting bothered by random men when I go alone and after work I often go to the gym with Mathieu... so I guess I'll breathe on weekends or when I travel...

I also miss my shoes and wish I'd brought more pants. I've discovered that sweating is better than mosquitoe bites and my swollen and itchy feet are eased by wearing socks.

Guess who's going to bed with socks on. Had the best night of sleep in a long time last night! weeee socks!