L. and I spent most of the afternoon preparing dinner. The C's came after a while, and we enjoyed an Indian dinner masterfully cooked by L. After they left around 10 pm, I took all the dishes (a lot of them) into the bathroom to wash them there. It's not as bad as it might sound, because we'd been dishwashing all along in a tiny sink tucked awkwardly in a moldy corner of our kitchen with nothing but cold water trickling out of a small faucet. It was hard on our backs, and the dishes were not being properly sanitized with only trickling cold water. But in our bathroom, with the movable sprayer, gas-heated hot water with temperatures we could control, and the ability to wash standing, sitting, or kneeling, dishwashing large loads became a LOT more comfortable, faster, and cleaner. A great idea which I wish I'd thought of earlier.
BTW, most bathrooms here aren't like in the U.S., where the bathtub/shower is separated from the rest of the bathroom and you don't dare get water outside or you ruin the linoleum. No, in our bathroom, the whole room is the shower. You can spray over the toilet, sink, etc. and the water just goes down a drain in the middle of the tile floor. The bathrooms in India are similar. Personally, I like that....very efficient. I wish I could remake our bathrooms back in the U.S. like the ones here in Asia.
