August 1, 2024: Sis’s Birthday Bash!

I’m chronically dehydrated.

I’m washing my hair with bar soap.

I’m sleeping on a 50 year old mattress from my childhood.

I feel like I haven’t eaten a proper serving of vegetables in over a week.

But tomorrow, I head home!

First though, we celebrate my sister’s birthday with dinner at Damas, a top-notch Syrian restaurant in Montreal.

Mom peruses the various dips: red pepper, eggplant, and chickpea.

Mom and sis and the grilled shrimp and octopus.

The kibbeh and the rack of lamb (mom’s favorite).

Sis blows out the candle on her birthday candle before moving on to our dessert medley: pistachio ashta ice cream with Syrian cotton candy, chocolate halva ice cream with kataifi, and cheese kanafa.

A good time was had by all.  Tomorrow, it’s pork chop lunch and then a 1:50 flight back to – if the weather reports are to believed – rainy Toronto.  But I’ll take it!

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