April Weekend

Like usual, the weekend began on Friday....

The family and I decided to make chocolate chip cookies Friday afternoon. Of course it would be too easy to assume that all the ingredients would already be in the house, but things just aren't that easy here in Mexico...We had to go out and pick up brown sugar, baking soda, walnuts (which we never found so we used pecans), stick butter, and chocolate chips. Let me tell you, we literally searched high and low for these few, simple things. First we went to a little store on the side of the street near Jack's old house; they didn't have everything we needed to we went to the Mega (it's a grocery store). Unable to find brown sugar, walnuts, and baking soda (seriously!?), we headed back downtown to look at La Costeña which was closed. Then we went to the market which only had baking soda. And finally, we went to another little store that gave us like 30 mini-packets of brown sugar. I was not in the mood to bake cookies after driving everywhere around Guanajuato for the most basic ingredients.

Anyway, after we got home we continued to make the cookies which was pretty simple. I never thought the hardest part would be finding everything. Anai almost had a heart attack when she saw how many chocolate chips I put in the batter (she doesn't like chocolate for some reason I don't understand)....I continued to pour them in regardless haha. We all hung out in the kitchen waiting for them to finish baking. They were definitely worth all the work. They didn't taste as good as Mom's, but oh well I guess.

After all that work I definitely needed a beer and a shower...so I took them together. Later I met up with some friends at the Irish bar for a michelada and after a drink we continued to Zilch where a live jazz band was playing (they were really good). I had another michelada, hung out with my friends while listening to some good music, and met Gerard Butler's mexican twin. I swear this guy looked identical...but I'm still not sure if he was gay or not ha. I went home around 2AM because I was tired and out of money.

On Saturday my friend Yuri and I went to San Miguel de Allende for the afternoon. We mostly just walked around and took pictures. We stopped at a couple little places that sold a bunch of stuff...Yuri bought a really cool apron and purse and I bought a bracelet for 15 pesos. After all that walking we got pretty hungry so we went to this restaurant that had 2 for 1 margaritas. Unfortunately we didn't know until we sat down that it didn't count as sharing like we had planned...only for each individual (super lame!). Instead of leaving from that warning, we were stupid and stayed...

Yuri ordered a steak and I ordered the "house tacos" - HUGE mistake. Once our food arrived, I was not-so-generously given two tacos. "Are you kidding? My stomach won't even feel this." The worst part - it cost 72 pesos for these 2 spectacular tacos. (To give you an idea of how much I was gipped off, one taco from the stand by my house costs 7 pesos...you do the math). What a rip off...if you decide to travel to San Miguel, I suggest you don't eat at the fancy restaurant - I never will again. It would have been a better idea to go to some little taco place that was way cheaper and better. Effff.

After that ridiculous experience, it was starting to look like it was about to rain so we decided to head back to the bus station. Once getting back to Guanajuato around 7:00 we decided to lay low and just have a movie night. We bought a few movies and headed to Yuri's house -- Abram joined us too and we watched Precious and Million Dollar Baby. Two depressing movies was a little too much for me. I went home after and slept like a baby.

Today I woke up around 11:30 and went to get breakfast downtown with Miguel and Norma - Gorditas! Delicious! After eating, we went back home, I did laundry, and hung around my room. In the afternoon, I went to Cafetal with Yuri, Ambre, and Kim to grab something to drink and dink around on the computer. We were there for a few hours and then Yuri, Ambre, and I went to La Diabla for a pitcher of beer. (Hey, why not on a Sunday)? We were talking for a while and then called it a night. Now I'm home and about to go to bed because another week of classes start tomorrow =[ boo.