Dinner with Shirin et al.

Tonight, we met up with Shirin and her boyfriend, Masha and Zjenja at Palladium. It's a restaurant in Leidseplein area. They were there first, however since Shirin and her boyfriend had never met Masha and Zjenja, they sat at separate tables of only a couple tables away. We came, and we united them. After all necessary introductions were squared away, we ordered our drinks and talked.

Lala and I did most of the talking, primarily about our honeymoon trip so far. Our experiences were compared to theirs, as they have gone to some of the cities we've visited. We also told them our ordeals with some of the cities when we were swindled. We mentioned our most and least favorite cities, even our most and least favorite restaurants. The most favorite restaurant would be Ristorante Diana in Vienna, Italy. The least being the overpriced café in Paris' Avenue de Champs-Elysées. Our most favorite city would be Prague, followed by Vienna as a close second and Vatican City as a close third. Least favorite would be Rome, due to it's disgusting litter found openly and the foul smell, such as urine. It was quite repulsive, really. The city's only redemption to us was their historical sites and buildings. FYI, we don't count Vatican City as part of Rome.

Masha was not feeling well. Apparently she had woken up really early in the morning and had to deal with issues at work. We didn't know what exactly, but we saw in her eyes that she desperately wanted to go home. She excused herself, and with her sister they said goodbye, goodnight and parted from us. We had made a promise to rendezvous tomorrow to make up for the limited time tonight.





After they have left, we turned our attention to Shirin and her boyfriend. Since they both knew Indonesian, we used some of it as we talked. Mine was much more limited than anyone, so I had to compensate with my English, which was not at all a problem. I was glad that everyone we've met so far had some knowledge of English such that I wouldn't have to keep quite. That would not have been fun since it felt like I wanted to say a lot of things. Meeting new people was fun. Meeting new and excitingly friendly people who are friends of Lala was awesome. And so we talked and talked, until we realized that it was almost midnight. They had to drive almost 2 hours back to their city, so we didn't want to impose on them staying late.

We went outside and decided to take some pictures.







We said our goodbyes, good lucks on our endeavors. They wished us the best on the rest of our honeymoon and our lives as married couples. We wished them good luck as well on life in general. It was nice, as I thought then, that we both have great friends.