Of Chocomint and DSL

Last night we had a great dinner out with a bunch of finnish guys, and their brazilian girlfriends. We went to the place from Valentine's day - probably the best restaurant in town. Turns out nearly the whole place was full of Andritz people, in three different big groups.

Tonight we've got plans to go over to the only other American guy's house. His Finnish girlfriend is visiting for a few days. I was discussing what to bring to the cook-out and was talking about why we live in the hotel instead of a house. One word. Internet. We'd been told there was no way to get real internet in a real house. Apparently, Robbie (the guy) has a house AND internet! Whoever lived in the house before had arranged for DSL somehow. Ugh. I could have had a real desk and a real chair and a real kitchen. It's only one more month here probably. So I doubt we'll be moving. The DSL couldn't have been easy to get if no one else has been able to figure it out.

And for some reason, Billy told me the ice cream shop had promised to make me a batch of mint chocolate chip ice cream. Last time we were there, we discovered they had mint syrup. So I told the gal we should try for mint chocolate chip milk shakes. Which is what we ended up having last night. A little heavy on the mint syrup (which was really a bit more spearminty than peppermint), but still pretty good.