MUNGO EATS Latin America

We are in Kelowna. The trip from Toronto to Kelowna was great. We flew with Westjet and they were so helpful. Mungo was allowed to go on as checked in baggage and that made everything so much nicer. The flight was pretty good, very little turbulence and obviously a 4 1/2 hour trip was a lot easier on all of us than a 15 hour trip.

We were met at the airport by both sets of grandparents. There was a lot of hugging and kissing and of course a few tears (my mother and I are both big babies). At least this time, they were tears of happiness. We will be staying at my parents place for a week, followed by a a week at grandparents McLeans’ house. We all had lunch at my Mom’s together first though. When my mom is happy, she does what all good Italian ladies do…she cooks. Needless to say, lunch was a feast.

Mungo is pretty happy here. He just can’t believe that his world now consists of more than one room at a time, and quite often we find him just wandering around the house, seeing what is behind the next door. Also, he can run around the backyard almost unsupervised, the yard isn’t quite closed in, but it is better than a short chain. Since my Mom is almost always cooking, or getting ready to cook, or just doing something with food, Mungo has decided that she is the best person to keep an eye on. He follows her everywhere, hoping to scrounge up the leftovers. Actually, she is a sap as well, and I have seen her toss him bits already.

So, all is good in our lives. I don’t think I will be posting very much for the next couple of weeks. I will let you kow if anything exciting happens, but mostly we will be catching up with our families. We will slowly be assimilating back into our lives. You would think it would be easy to fall back into our normal routines, but yesterday I did two things that I did as we travelled, and would never do at home. The first thing was that I was washing some dishes, and I had the rinse water running at a trickle. My Mom came by and turned the water on a bit more, shooting me a confused look. We lived the whole year being very careful of our water consumption, because the water tank in our van would only hold about 50 litres. Even though it is best to be careful about water consumption, I could probably use more than a trickle to rinse.

The second thing I did was even more embarrassing. We did not have hot water in the van, and whenever we wanted hot water, we had to warm a pot of it up on the stove. I had to give Mungo a mini bath yesterday, since he was stinky after the flight (flying scares the pee out of him). I started to fill a pot with water to put it on the stove, before everyone in the house reminded me that we had hot running water at our fingertips. Too easy!!