We all sat down to dinner, and the food was SOOOOO GOOD!!!!!! Well, everything so far has been awsome, but this was especially good. The chilies weren't hot, but perfect.
After dinner, at 6, the boys, their grandpa, and me all went to a park so we could play our games and run around more. On our way there we saw a white tiger in a cage on the back of a truck. We played tenis and badmitton next to a fountain. Then we got ice cream bars, but they weren't really ice cream. It was more like a sherbert thing, but not even that really. I had lime crema. Then we piled back into the Volkswagon Bug and went home.
Later that night Annie, Rudy, kids, Areli and me all went to el zocalo. On our way there, the street was PACKED with stalls selling food, and clothes, toys, everything. People everywhere. We parked, and walked through a park, past big churches, some kind of a show, and just city nightlife, and got to a restaurant. We had sangria while the boys played tag the whole time.
Then everyone kept talking about this corn. So me, Areli, and the kids went on a mission for corn on the cob. We had to walk a couple blocks down some streets to find some cheap ones. They pound it onto a stick, rub a lime on it, spread on mayonaise, cover it in something like a mix of parmeasan and mozerella cheese, and then if you want some chili powder. I said I didn't want a whole one and asked someone to split one with me, and of course the next thing I know I get a whole corn from Areli.
Walking back, we see fireworks in the air and a monsterous spinning sparkler coming our way. there is some kind of traditional parade coming our way, complete with fireworks, gigantic spinning ball, a band, and two people on stilts. It makes it's way all the way to el zocalo, and goes right past our table!
There were even girls with huge dresses carrying things on their heads like fruit and flowers, they stopped right in front of us and did a dance!!
Sometime after that we went home.
Sunday: I again woke up around 8, while everyone else got up around 10:30ish. We were supposed to go out for breakfast at the zocalo, then go to church, but everyone was late, so we stayed at home. Another giant breakfast of dinner leftovers, tortillas, taquitos, salsas, guacamole, beans, cheese, watermelon, papaya, hot chocoalte, and.... BEER! I never thought a beer would be as hard to drink as that first beer at an MSU tailgate: 6am in the dark, but whew, I could barely get it down.
Mom: on a side note: we drink that kind of hot chocoalte you have every single day here. I thought you'd like that. What we do though, is break the bricks into small pieces, so you can throw in as much as you like, heat up the milk, then throw it all ni a blender. It is a lot faster.
After breakfast, we all pile into cars and go downtown, to Santo Domingo for church!! It was awesome and distracting.
After church, we made our way back to the zocalo for ice cream and frappucinos. Annie, Rudy and I went to the market after that, while everyone else did who knows what. They were doing their grocery shopping while I was on a mission for cute, cheap jewlery and purses. It was a lot of fun. I wanted to stay there longer, I wanted to buy a lot there. But, we'll be back. Rudy bought crickets. The boys love them, chapulinas. We stopped by to get some meat too, it was all in one section. They have the meat, you pick what you want, and they grill it right there for you, so there were about 10 grills going, with 2 people fanning each one, so the whole place smelled like a barbeque. It smelled amazing. We ate it all when we got home before we took off.
We also stopped by a stand of pirated movies!! That was exciting. We got like 15, including Benjamin Button, the new Will Smith movie, Bolt, a Britney Spears CD with 119 songs on it, Australia, Valkyrie, and more that I can't remember. Mom, I got you Mama Mia for $1.50 as a present.
On the ride home I played some monster octopus game with the kids in the car. It got pretty crazy in the backseat.
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