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Spain Part 68 – Feliz Cumpleaños Ryan
Apr. 5th, 2008 08:10 pmOn Saturday Alicia got up early and went shopping at Boin Aire, which is an outlet mall close by Valencia, though far enough away that you have to take a shuttle bus to get there. I stayed home and worked on getting my blog updated instead since it has been a really long time since I have posted anything. I managed to get a few of the ones from fallas and Belgium finished, so hopefully I’ll be able to get caught up and post everything eventually.
When Alicia got back we ate paella de verduras (yummy!) for la comida and then we went to work on tarea/take siestas. It worked out to be more tarea than siesta, so that was a good thing. I need to really step it up a notch and get things done ahead of time because I feel like every time the week comes up I feel overwhelmed, even when I spent half of my weekend doing tarea. I should probably take a full weekend to do tarea and nothing else one of these weekends.
After la cena (we ate bocadillos with ensalada de pollo or chicken salad on them) Alicia and I decided to give Ryan a call because it was his cumpleaños (birthday). We got a hold of him and decided that we would meet up with him and Heather at a juice bar called Zumería Naturalia (the first word means juice store, and the second means natural/organic). Their regular size for serving juice is huge, and it’s always crowded there. If you want to sit down, you actually have to take a number and wait until a seat becomes available.
Anyway, we decided just to get some zumo para llevar (juice to go) and walked over to the Plaza de la Reina to sit and chat while we sipped our juice. After we finished it was getting a bit chilly outside so we decided to go into a discoteca or bar and dance for awhile. We went to Café Madrid, which generally attracts an older crowd, but is nice to go and just chill because there’s good music and creepy guys are rather scarce. We danced to techno for a few hours and then decided to head home since we were all tired (well except Ryan, but he takes ginseng pills for energy so he doesn’t count).
When Alicia got back we ate paella de verduras (yummy!) for la comida and then we went to work on tarea/take siestas. It worked out to be more tarea than siesta, so that was a good thing. I need to really step it up a notch and get things done ahead of time because I feel like every time the week comes up I feel overwhelmed, even when I spent half of my weekend doing tarea. I should probably take a full weekend to do tarea and nothing else one of these weekends.
After la cena (we ate bocadillos with ensalada de pollo or chicken salad on them) Alicia and I decided to give Ryan a call because it was his cumpleaños (birthday). We got a hold of him and decided that we would meet up with him and Heather at a juice bar called Zumería Naturalia (the first word means juice store, and the second means natural/organic). Their regular size for serving juice is huge, and it’s always crowded there. If you want to sit down, you actually have to take a number and wait until a seat becomes available.
Anyway, we decided just to get some zumo para llevar (juice to go) and walked over to the Plaza de la Reina to sit and chat while we sipped our juice. After we finished it was getting a bit chilly outside so we decided to go into a discoteca or bar and dance for awhile. We went to Café Madrid, which generally attracts an older crowd, but is nice to go and just chill because there’s good music and creepy guys are rather scarce. We danced to techno for a few hours and then decided to head home since we were all tired (well except Ryan, but he takes ginseng pills for energy so he doesn’t count).
