Another Sunday Morning in Mendoza

Sunday mornings are one of my favorite times no matter where I am and they haven't disappointed me at all here in Mendoza. This Sunday is Father's Day and Jeff and I called Jay, Jeff's dad to see what he was up to. He said, it's been an exciting kitty day with B&J. Yesterday was nap day. Jay and June have been "baby sitting" the kitties since we left for our trip. We thank them!

The sun is out and the weather is supposed to hit the low 50's today so we are headed for the big park at the University of Mendoza. Jeff and I get our exercise and practice our Spanish while we walk. Without a Spanish book with us, we sometimes have to improvise with what we are trying to say. We decided that was probably okay... at least we understand each other. Hmmm.... well, that's one strategy to learn a new language, it working out so far. Our profesora has her work cut out for her.

Last night we ate at a restaurant called Azafran's and had a great dinner. The restaurant is either a working store during the day where they sell cheese's, deli meats and bulk spices or perhaps that is all for show. On their menu they have numerous starter plates which take advantage of their deli products. The atmosphere was very quaint and comfortable, food exceptional and service excellent.

My waistline is unfortunately responding to all of the great food experiences we have had over the last few weeks. Smaller portions and more exercise. Although we walk almost everywhere we go, we still have this problem...Eating seems to be our favorite entertainment.

Missing our high speed internet, but we are thankful to have a computer and any Internet. Our apartment doesn't have cable connected, so we read, watch movies or blog in the evening. I'm out of reading/ books in English and we've watched out last movie, so we bought a movie on-line and downloaded it overnight. It worked! For a stereo, we also use the computer, although streaming music doesn't work, we have a lot of music available on the harddisk. Watching youTube video's also don't work at this speed. The Internet connection issue looks like it will cause us to go back to Buenos Aires (BA) for our last month here. The issue can eventually be resolved, but apparently not quickly... That's okay.