This weekend was a two day snoozefest. I really didn’t do much at all. Friday night Paco and I went to get some groceries and a movie. We ate what he thought was a healthy salad, but it SO was not. The chicken we used was a breaded chicken that had a lot of saturated and trans fat… but it was DELICIOUS. I’ll let him keep believing it was healthy.
We watched Oceans Thirteen. I did not want to rent it, but I knew that he has been wanting to see it for quite some time. Plus, it has Brad Pitt and Matt Damon in it, so at least I had something pretty to look at. The movie was DUMB DUMB DUMB. It was worst than the second one. Everything was set up for the characters WAY too easy. It was like watching an episode of CSI, you know how they always get these super great clues that are SO random. “Oh, well it looks like the kernels of sand on his shoe have a clay in them that is only manufactured in a special plant over on 4th street, and mixed with that clay is a unique rock that is used in the gardens at the apartments over on 24th. If we can check our database to see who at the factory lives at those apartments, then we have our killer.”
In the movie they used a huge tunnel drilling machine under the hotel to bump the hotel and cause a minor earthquake to shut down the hotel’s security system. So apparently it’s not hard to get permits to dig tunnels under the city and NOBODY will ever wonder what caused the earthquake and track it back to the people that were allowed to put a tunnel digger under the city. There was way too much stuff in that movie that you had to suspend all disbelief to get around.
Saturday I really didn’t do anything. I sat around the apartment watching TV and making a scarf for Heather’s daughter, Sierra. Heather gave me the idea to make scarfs with pockets on the end, so when it’s cold you can tuck your hands in the pockets and keep your neck and hands warm! She’s such a smarty. So this was the first scarf I made with pockets, only I messed them up a little. I put them on opposite sides, and one is a little bigger than the other. Pity.
I finished the scarf by the afternoon and Heather came over with Sierra to pick it up. We hung out at the playground for a while chatting while Sierra played. Heather also demonstrated her amazing acrobatic skills on the bars. Apparently she can do things with horizontal and vertical bars/poles.
Saturday night Paco and I went to dinner and then played Jenga and Dominoes for a while. We were both exhausted and went to bed early.
Sunday was another snoozer. Paco had to work, so I worked on making a matching hat for Sierra’s scarf and when that was finished I did some real work. I went to clean an apartment office. It was actually kind of fun. The office is new, so I spent some time redecorating it as I cleaned. It needed a little help.
Sunday night Paco and I went to his mothers to celebrate El Día de Los Reyes. In Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries, children receive Christmas gifts not from Santa, but from los reyes magos - the three wise men. This trio drops off treasures during the night of January 5 to be discovered on El Día de Los Reyes, known in English as the Feast of the Epiphany. You also serve a rosca de reyes (king’s crown), a crown-shaped sweet bread with small figures of babies baked inside. In Mexico, anyone who gets a piece with a baby inside has to give another party on or before Candlemas, on February 2, when the country’s holiday season officially ends. His mother also made hot chocolate, and even asked me if I knew what hot chocolate was and if I had ever had it before… like they only have it in Mexico.
Neither Paco, nor I, got a piece of bread with a baby in it, which is also said to be good luck. However, Paco’s mother got two pieces with babies in them. The chocolate milk she made was fresh from the stove and burned my tongue. It feels like I have a sandpaper tongue now. It hurts.
We watched a show on the Spanish channel called 5 Magnificos: Estreno de la serie en que siete equipos, cada uno liderado por una celebridad, compiten en una serie de pruebas inspiradas en el circo. La organización benéfica de niños representada por el equipo ganador recibirá ayuda económica.” Which means, “Opening of the series in which seven teams, each one lead by a celebrity (actor, singer), competes in a series of tests inspired by the circus (very Cirque du Soliel). The beneficial organization of children represented by the winning team will receive economic aid.
It was pretty interesting. There were also two really cute boys, Adrián Alejandro Salas Vargas and José Alberto Vázquez Atayde. Yummy!
