Grocery Shopping & Sassy

Grocery shopping:  Food (other than meat) is cheaper than the US.  (Actually, I haven’t bought many frozen convenience foods, so that may be more).  

For example, I bought:

10  eggs (that’s how they package them)

pack of three small heads of some sort of baby romaine lettuce thing

2 avocados

pack of tomatoes

green onions

3 sweet peppers

about 4 lbs. of carrots

package of cremini-type mushrooms

head of cauliflower

bunch of broccoli

liter bottle of peach wine(?)/cider(?)

a small package of salami

half dozen brochen (roll - think baby bagette)

liter of vanilla soymilk

a liter of limeade soda thing

Total price: a little over 26 US dollars.   

Specific things about prices: It really is cheaper to buy beer than to buy soda, juice or water.  You can grab a bottle of good beer for under a buck. Breads are silly cheap (pack of brochen - mini baguette things are 6 for about 40 cents).  A container of cheap blueberry yogurt almost twice the size of the standard 6-oz runs about 45 cents.


Sassy:

Sassy seems to be settling in, although she's still a little nervous. We did, after all, spend a few weeks at Rebecca & Allan's before putting her on the plane, so she's probably not sure how permanent this is. She has claimed the sofa as her own, although sometimes allow us to share.  She likes sitting on table on balcony, but hasn’t tried to jump up to the ledge. When Daniel set her up there, she seemed less than thrilled (the metal under her claws might have been a big part of it).  She hasn’t tried to get on the windowsills when the windows are open - even in the bathroom where she has several smaller jumps she can make to do it.  She has tried leaving a few times when the door is open, but the one time we monitored her and after several flights of stairs someone opened their door, and that was enough to send her back up.