Saturday, October 30-Monday, November 1, 2010

This weekend has been very relaxing, but also a little disappointing because of the rain. It has rained on and off the entire weekend! Normally, I wouldn’t mind some rain here and there, but when Feria is outdoors, it causes problems. I walked through the attractions on Friday when they were still setting up, but we actually haven’t “been” yet because we never know when the rain will fall. Jesús is coming over at 8:30 and we are going to try to go tonight. Hopefully it’s dry because it’s the last night! Another than that, I haven’t done much today—a load of laundry, that’s about it…I really haven’t felt like doing much because of the weather: cold, windy and overcast with intermittent showers. And it doesn’t help that with the time change it now starts getting dark about 6:15. :(

Saturday didn’t find us doing a whole lot until the evening. We ordered Chinese takeout and had several people over: Ana (Gunita’s friend whom worked in my school last year, but now works in a different town) Conchi, Beatriz, Oscar (who used to live in the apartment last year) and his girlfriend Ilu (short for Iluminada), Jesús and Javi. This was the second time we’ve had their takeout—it’s so good! Jesús, Ilu and Oscar didn’t arrive until after 11, because they had a wedding that afternoon, so by the time we ordered the food and picked it up, it was about midnight when we ate. That put us at the bar about 2:00. Gunita likes to which things up and visit the different bars, so she, Will and Conchi went to Bianco a bit later, but I much prefer La Komba (I found out this weekend that it’s actually spelled with a “K”, instead of a “C”), so I stayed with Teresa, Nuria, Leo, Javi and Marisa. We arrived so late that we really weren’t there too long…everyone left about four.

Sunday (Happy Halloween!) was very lazy and we spent the afternoon watching the Back to the Future movies. We made reservations at the restaurant Stone for ten o’clock (we all wanted to eat earlier!). I’m glad the reservations weren’t later because it was still after midnight by the time we finished. We ordered four dishes to share (which weren’t served together, by the way, but rather brought out one after the other) and a bottle of wine (I really didn’t want any because I had a stomachache, but everyone else did, so I had some). Then came dessert and another bottle of wine. That was followed by coffee. Finally the meal ended with some shots. Usually you are served with one shot and that’s it, but when the waiter came back and when we asked for the check, he said he would bring us another. We all were like “NO!” and he said “What’s the problem? You’re not driving are you?” And we had to say no: we weren’t because Jesús left dinner early to go pick up his girlfriend, Rosalía (who lives in another town and had to work last night). So, he brought us another. This time it wasn’t your average shot—it was the mother of all shots! I’m not kidding! He served us glasses three times the size of the first one! And for someone who didn’t feel well, for someone who didn’t even want the first shot or two bottles of wine, it wasn’t easy to slam…let me tell you.

We left about 12:15 and I went home to take some IB Profen, while the others went to La Komba. I rejoined them at another bar, Rivera, about 45 minutes later. We didn’t end up staying there long and left to go to Moma. My stomach started being bothersome again, and our house is on the way to the bar, so I parted ways with them again about 2:30 and went home to go to bed.

I do have something to look forward to though: only three days of school this week! And I can’t believe it’s November already! Where has the time gone?

Xoxo,

Court