sundays and ambar

i met caitlin yesterday for our weekly sunday brunch. these brunchs are often really more like lunches, happening later than the word brunch normally implies, as the result of late saturday nights. but yesterday we were up early and decided to meet for a proper brunch at 11:00am. we went to ambar. i used to go to that place practically every sunday with jeremy about 3 years ago, but i hadnt been there since august 2003, when i went there one last time with jeremy before hopping on a plane with an angry cat and all my worldly possessions, bound for budapest. but now that i am back, i decided to check out the place again adn see how it has held up....it is, i suspect, completely unchanged. even the prices seemed the same. but the food didnt taste so good this time around, i had a generic omlette, which was totally unsatisfying, but left me feeling i had overeaten. caitlin felt the same. i suppose some experiences are better preserved in ones memory.
fortunately the day improved as we headed for our weekly window shopping that generally doesnt stop at the window....i got a furla bag to match a dress i have to wear to a formal dinner in about 10 nights....
it was incredibly hot and sunny (33 degrees....later in the week they are predicting 37) and there were all kinds of strange people out in the streets, like the girl and her family walking their pet babboon, pictured above. all those types like me without a dacha...