Apartment #2 is so great. We live on Guatemala Street, all the streets around us are named after little countries- next door is Paraguay. I'm not used to the metrics system yet, but what this whole moving into a different apartment thing has taught me is that 40 sq. meters is a HUGE difference from 30 sq. meters... how big is a meter? who knows, but 10 of them is quite noticeable. I mean, 5 km is about 3 miles-ish but thats as far as my metric knowledge goes. Well and 0˚C is cold. It may not look like a gem from the video, but it really is. The only thing is, which isn't even really a thing at all but, you know when you go to the bank - the drive through part- and you send your money through that shoot and it makes that "shooop" sound... well we constantly hear that sound all day because the walls are thin and we're kinda near the elevator and the elevator sounds just like that! haha I promise. Its like living in the money shoot, but you dont even notice it really. So if you saw the video, Welcome to our Apartment #2! So thats where we live.
Today I went running in the Palermo Parks, I had never been before- Palermo is the "barrio" we live in and there are a bunch of parks together so they call them the Palermo Parks. Theres a Rose Garden, the Japanese Gardens and a couple others. Anyway its like Townlake in Austin meets that famous park in Amsterdam, ugh whats it called, anyway its so nice.. palm trees, other trees, lakes- well ponds, green area everywhere, swans, ducks, picnics, dirt paths to run on, oh and a little man selling ice cream and choripan: chorizo + pan (bread) = choripan. simple concept. Plus, I'm sure it didnt hurt that it was 75˚ and beautiful outside. It was so nice! Thats the picture on here, I didnt take it- because... who runs with a camera in their pocket, but its from the internet of where I ran. Oh and on the walk back to the subte (subway) I found a flower stand and bought myself a flower, Ive never seen this type of flower- its called Terciopelo, which means Velvet in spanish- who knew, but the red pedals are so close together, like a cauliflower and they feel and look just like velvet! Im not sure what its called in english. See the picture of our dinner... well its the flower in the background. Speaking of dinner, so the food is cheaper here and we found a whole chicken at the supermarket for $3 (how cool is that) because Bryan wanted to oven-roast a chicken with rosemary. Well we get the ingredients from the supermarket, and came back to discover that the oven had no temperatures written on the knob. haha what? Maybe its common here, but how are you supposed to know I wonder. What would Bobby Flay do? Anyway, Bryan seasoned the chicken - you know, some rosemary, garlic, olive oil- threw it in there, put it on high and hoped for the best.. it surprisingly turned out really really good- not too dry, not raw- but really good! "Suprisingly" not because he cant cook , because hes a good little chef, but because the oven is pretty much a question mark in disguise. So, thats what the picture is. Oh and we didnt eat the whole chicken by the way, like the lentils, we will be having chicken for a while...
The computer is doing weird things with the font- so, I guess I'm done for tonight, which is probably good.
P.S.: Happy 5 de Mayo, eat tons of avocados and drink a margarita or 2 for me :)
- Elise
you are so cute. i miss you.
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