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Allison's School and Nice Lunch
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So, today we got up and ate ham and cheese sandwiches with hot chocolate for breakfast. I think I forgot to mention that Allison has two little parakeets. One is blue and one is green. Allison has handled them so much that now you can hold them and carry them around in your hand and they don't bite. Well, anyways they ate breakfast with us. They have a little perch in the dining room and they just sit there and talk to each other while we eat. So cute. She named them "Mickey" and "Donald" - and she carries them all over the house all the time. After breakfast Oscar's Dad dropped us off at the "parking garage" mall and we shopped there for a little while. We got my cousin Anthony's Christmas gift, and then we went to pick up my ring. The first visit to this mall I dropped off my original wedding ring to be re-sized, since it fit my pinky finger best..... After we picked it up we went shopping for skirts! I found a couple really pretty ones. I was so excited because finally I was finding what I had been looking for! Then I bought some hair clips....blah blah blah Anyways we shopped. The past couple of days we have all been keeping an eye out for a bookstore. I finished the book mom gave me on the plane and want to buy a few more. (especially to have something to do during the siestas when I'm not sleepy...) But we can't find one anywhere. Oscar stated the obvious saying "Apparently reading is not a big thing here....." yeah, apparently not. I'm giving up because if there are that few book stores, then I doubt that if we found one they would have books in English! We saw Allison's school. She gave us a tour. It used to be an old plantation house. Really nice! Saunas, pool, basketball court, etc. But a little old, so they are relocating to nicer more modern buildings. It's a girls' only school. We ate lunch at a really cool place today. (Dad and Co. it was kind of like Dos Bocas without the water....) There were many overhanging trees, and the place was mainly made of a bunch of huts with thatched roofs. We drank semi-frozen orange juice (I'm beginning to wonder how many ways I'm going to be served juice on this trip!). Allison had grilled chicken - but the other four of us shared a dish. It was a plate piled high with grilled chicken, grilled pork, churizos, steak pieces, and sauteed onions and peppers. The sauce it was cooked in was Mexican. Needles to say I skipped the veggies, but I hogged all the churizos, however you spell that. The side dishes, not that we needed any, included yuca, arepas, and plantains. The arepas were different than usual. Apparently Colombians have as many different types of arepas as the French have of cheeses. Oh boy! And the plantains were actually baked with cheese inside the middle. Kind of like a banana split - except it's a plantain, it's warm, and there's cheese instead of ice cream. Then we went home to get ready for the dinner party Oscar's parents' friends invited us to. They were all so nice. Oh yeah, and we were supposed to get there at 7:30 and we arrived at 8:05. We were the first ones there.....Anyways, we talked..or actually they talked and I listened. There were about 5 couples there, all old friends. Oscar translated for me as we listened to them talk about their children who were all grown. One couple was upset because their daughter just got lipo done on her tummy. She can't even move out of bed, perfect timing for the holidays, huh? They said she wasn't even fat! And she's only 19. stupid and lazy, if you ask me. We ate lasagna, or at least that's what I would call it. It was delicious, but there were too many mushrooms I thought. It was noodles, chicken, something red and chewy, and mushrooms and a whitish sauce. Okay, I dont know what it was, but it was good. Oh and bread of course. They went nuts with our little camera - and the self timer was a huge hit with them! We set the camera up on a stool and I bet a snapshot of their reactions after the self-timer would have made an even better picture. So funny! Then we had some weird cake. It was wine cake that to me tasted like what an oatmeal raisin cake would taste like without the oatmeal and without the sugar. yuck The worst part is that it looked like a rich chocolate cake when she handed it to me and so I was all excited and expecting a mouthful of chocolate. And that's all we did today.
Where I stayed:
Parents' House
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