Where are the Easter eggs?

It is finally warm here and the sun is shining. When I say warm I think it is about 14 degrees C but after having 3 or 4 it feels like the tropics.

I've been packing up the apartment ready to move in a couple of days. I hardly fit in here with all the extra furniture. I can't wait to get into the new place and set it up. I feel like a Uni student again buying second hand cheap furniture and salvaging things from next to dumpsters. Steve and Tracy are going to stop by Tuesday night and help with some of the heavy things.

Today is Sunday. I really notice Pete not here on the weekends. At other times I usually pretty busy. I'm not sure what I'd be doing differently if he was here anyway.

I've been preparing a lecture today. I'm filling in for my boss for two of his lectures. I actually sit in on the class so it is a bit strange jumping up and giving the lecture. It is a course for PhD students which is also strange because I'm about the same age as them. The first one is an intro to El Nino. My biggest problem is how to keep the lecture to an hour. There is definitely a southern hemisphere perspective in my slides though. It seems the ocean only exists from the north pole to the equator over here, so I have an hour to remedy it!

Off to lunch now with Steve and Tracy. We are going down to Wooster Square which is New Haven's Little Italy.

4pm.
Back from lunch. We ordered a meal at the restaurant which was supposed to be for one person. We shared it between three and it fed us just nicely! Have learnt here never to expect to be able to eat as much as they recommend. Not sure what everyone else does. I think people don't expect to finish their meals or to take home left overs. We then went to a lovely bakery for cake - the best I've seen so far.

It's not long till Easter and there are no Easter Eggs to be seen! In Australia I'm sure the chocolates have been out for months. There is nothing like it here, and no hot cross buns. It is surprising that the US doesn't cash in on this commercialism. Can't figure it out. Don't they have the Easter Bunny here? Don't worry, I will still buy chocolate for myself!

Jaci xx