Let's celebrate 1 month with a fever!

So many milestones coming up!  One week from today, I will officially be in my "late twenties"-- more than half-way through my golden years, and what do I have to show for it?  Not sure.  We'll see how we celebrate it in Nigeria.  The other major anniversary is the one month mark of living in Africa; it will be official this Wednesday, but I feel like I have been here forever.  I've come to realize that Abuja isn't that big, nor is there that much to do.  So, even though one month doesn't seem like such a long time, I think we've pretty much explored most of what Abuja has to offer, save a few things we probably will get to, this weekend.  Perhaps a pedicure and then dinner at a bush garden or the barracks to try out the famous grilled fish that everyone talks about, a birthday dinner maybe?  Couple of stores that we haven't scoped out yet, but overall, we've pretty much seen everything worthwhile seeing here.
Oh yes, so I went to bed last night with a weird feeling in my throat, and then woke up this morning with a crazy sore throat and a low-grade fever.  Sore throat, while uncomfortable, was a good sign, seeing as getting a sore throat isn't a symptom of malaria... so that one mosquito bite that I received since being here for over 3 weeks wasn't malaria-laced, I don't think.  Am at home right now though, slept the entire day to try and break the fever.  Courtesy of NEPA (the wonky Nigerian power company), I was able to sweat most of it out, I think, since power outages prevented a/c from working.  Sigh.  This country needs to figure out how to stop lining the pockets of its political leaders and build a power infrastructure that actually works. :T
In other news, yesterday our new surrogate uncle (Uncle "Pig"), the manager of the hush hush restaurant that we went to on Friday, took us to the Transcorp Hilton for a breakfast buffet and then treated us to another delicious dinner of potstickers and homemade tofu (complete with spicy crab meat, flown/driven? in from Lagos) at his restaurant.  I managed to strike up a deal with him to buy frozen potstickers off of him, and then offered to help create a few dessert options for the restaurant, in exchange for more home-cooked meals.  So next weekend, will be putting myself to work in the kitchen!  Perhaps a couple types of fancy cookies (biscotti, anyone?) and small pastries... black currant danish maybe (Nigerianize it with Ribena! haha).