Thank God It's Friday tomorrow...!

Here's Friday's Sundae that I had at TGIF today. Yes, there is a TGI Friday in paradise, too! It's Thursday today still, but the place was busy. Like people elsewhere, people in paradise are so sick of being at work during the week that they can't wait the weekend. Indeed, this TGIF is located on Hope Road... :)

The chocolate and caramel sauce was just so divine and eeeeeevil. 475JMD (before tax - 16%!!), which is nearly US$7.

It was very heavenly to enjoy this formidable thing at that moment, but I had to face the consequence later on. I went to a yoga class and... I could feel the damage it did to my body. It made me heavier, for sure. The sundae was very big, which made it so great at that moment, but...

Oh yes, not only TGIF, but there are also yoga studios in paradise. People in paradise are as stressed as people elsewhere are, it seems, and there are two studios in my neighborhood. One behind the U.S. Embassy and another near the Canadian Embassy. Today, I went to Afya (http://www.afyajamaica.com/), which is on Bamboo Avenue behind the U.S. Embassy. The room is semi-open air and faces a lush green garden, which gives it a serene, out-of-the-(nasty real) world feeling. A drawback is that the studio does not have a changing room, thus people coming from work have to change to yoga attire in a bathroom, but that does not seem to deter the stressed residents of paradise from coming to the studio. The class was full today, with ten residents of paradise, the majority of whom were women. 800JMD (about US$11)/class.

More cakes...!

Continuing with cakes, look at those pretty enticing creatures... They can be found at the coffee shop in the entrance hall of the Hilton on Knutsford Boulevard. Their blueberry cheesecake is my favorite.

Watching ice cream scooped in a Jamaican way

Went to i Scream in Devon House on Hope Road. It is a local business that produces and sells ice cream, and people queue up to get ice cream there. My vague memory tells me that perhaps I had ice cream there when I came to Kingston for the first time in May 2005. If I went there then, I had not been there ever since, and especially after one of my colleagues told me that their kids got sick after eating their ice cream, I never preferred to go there. At the request of another colleague, however, I was to get the flavour Devon Stout for a potluck party tonight.
The queue was not long when I went in today. When you go in, first, you choose the size, and then you pay. I chose the largest size they had, which was a quart container, which cost 800JMD. I thouht it was rather pricy, for Edy's ice cream would cost 678JMD for 1.75 qt. This is another instance where you are reminded that locally produced food is often more expensive than imported food in Jamaica.
When I paid, I got a ticket with number 18. I advanced to the right, at which point my number was called. I was asked which flavour, and said Devon Stout. The ice cream scooper mounted a LOT of ice cream in the quart container, more than twice the height of the container. As I wondered, "What is she doing? That is not going to fit in that container," she began pushing down the ice cream with a spoon, and eventually managed to fit all the ice cream in the container. Wow. I had never seen ice cream "scooped" like that.
The flavour Devon Stout was indeed rich and tasty.