What a lovely day I had today.  I was a bit apprehensive at first to drive with my new friend as I know there are no road rules here.  Every driver just does his or her own thing.  She'd also warned me the day before that the cops seem to single her out as she's a white lady in a white car.  They would pull her over for any excuse and once threatened to take her to the police station if she didn't give them some money.  Well, we had none of that today, thank goodness.

We started off by going to Cedi Plaza and first stop was a coffee shop for some caffeine.  We needed energy for the day.  Then we explored each level to see what kind of shops they had.  We were actually looking for material for our traditional dresses but found some other interesting places, like a bookstore where we both bought books for our grandchildren.  It was lovely to just browse through the shops.  When I go with hubby, we just go for a specific thing and I don't get time to browse.  The material shop had so much fabric, it was really difficult to choose one.  My one piece of fabric cost me about R200.  Luckily my friend has a tailor so I don't need to go looking for one.  After browsing all the levels it was lunch time and we headed to Dunes. 

I'm still looking for sun-dried tomatoes, so I pop into any and all supermarkets.  This one was a really nice one, the best I've been in so far. It had Delifrance bread, oh happy day. I'd been looking for wholewheat bread as well. I found fresh veggies, all the green stuff that hubby so hates but I love, spinach and basil and celery.  I nearly clapped my hands at the sight and did a jig. No sun-dried tomatoes though.  We've been eating tinned fish since we arrived here so I ordered fish and chips for lunch.  It was so good.  Far too much food but so good.  My friend ordered a chicken fajita and she got a whole heap of food too.  I tasted some of it and it was also good but the portions are huge.  Two people could easily share one.  Guess where we'll be going next time we eat out. 

So I just googled "where can I find sun-dried tomatoes in Abuja" and my blog was one of the hits.  How cool is that.  I also learnt that consumption of sun-dried tomatoes could cause Hepatitis A, so I shall stop looking for them here.

I'm very happy to have found me a friend to do things with. Tomorrow I meet up with another friend for the first time for an early morning walk.  I'm also meeting a colleague of hubby's for lunch tomorrow.  I'll have my Bunco team before long.