Lizards Eat Bugs Not People

Saturday February 9, 2008

This morning Sam and I woke up and had a nice little intimate breakfast together, since Allison had left earlier in the morning to go to Gibraltar. After breakfast we headed out to the main shopping streets to pick up a few things. I ended up buying some really cheap earrings and some jeans that were on sale; I obviously had to add a Spanish pair to the growing collection. We came home and had lunch with the family and then I started working on homework. After about 4 hours of homework, which I did on the outside patio because it was a gorgeous day, I decided that we needed to get out of the house for a while. Sam and I headed to Calle Feria (Feria Street) to look for a bar for a “tinto de verano.” We finally found a place called Bar Becquer and decided to try it. The little old bar man was really funny and it ended up being a cheap and good find. Afterwards we checked out a few other stores on the way home. We got home around 8:30pm and Allison came home a few minutes later. We talked about our days, listened to music and hung out for a bit until dinner. After dinner we talked to the family, it’s a lot livelier this weekend with Fatima here. There has been cousins, boyfriends, grandchildren, and all of Encarna’s kids coming in and out. We had a pretty long conversation with “the fam” after dinner and its nice knowing that we can actually communication and understand a lot better now than we have been able to in the past. I am staying in tonight because I have a 15-minute speech about immigration in Spain this upcoming Wednesday. I started making a survey today to ask people on the street. I’m pretty nervous about it but I think the results will be interesting to share and I got Rocio and Encarna to look over and correct my questions before I start hitting the street. I had a lot of other homework to do today but tomorrow I’m going out and actually doing the survey. Oh, and for the record, Encarna reminded me today that lizards eat bugs and not people so if I saw the lizard in the bathroom again not to worry. Just a little insight from our “Momma Espanola.”