Slowly but surely...

Today we only had a half day of school. The 30th of March is some local holiday and the city had a military parade. We didn't go to the parade. We took a nap. But this is just another example of the Latin culture: the city announced the half day and parade YESTERDAY.


Anyway, onto day 5 with our visitors, Thurday:

The ladies were exhausted the next day after a long hard day in the sun, so they slept in and took it easy. Amy and I had to teach all day. But afterward, we met the ladies at Plaza Internacional, a mall, to pick up some Latina Fashions!

We stopped at KB, Amy's favorite jewelry store. I think it was Justine who said "It's like Claire's, but for grown-ups!" This is the same place I got Patty and Colleen their Christmas presents. Lots of really fun stuff. Justine got a little basket and soon had it filled with all of the goodies she found. She came to Amy and I, desperate, and indecisive: "I can't get all of this!" So we all got together and helped her weed through and make some decisions. We made our purchases and walked out of the store to see that another jewelry store had recently opened up just next door. We entered and repeated the above activities.


After a hard evening of shopping we crossed the street to a cool place called Parrillita. It's a nice grill with some amazing meat for extremely reasonable prices. I had chuletas (pork chops), Amy had a kabob of mixed meat, Grandma had mofongo (mashed plantains with pork), and Justine had chicharrones de pollo (Dominican fried chicken). Everything was breathtakingly delicious.