Saturday, Sunday, & Monday (Beaches & Food)

I remember when I was in Spain how most everyone took off for summer vacations and the streets and city basically emptied. 30 years later I am seeing the same phenomenon, but seemingly even more pronounced.

The Uruguayans have been complaining because the weather has been much cooler and wetter than what seems "normal" to them. For Bonnie and me, who only know what we are experiencing, we are quite satisfied. Especially since we were prepared for very hot and humid days. However, beginning with the new year, the weather has been outstanding. Saturday was low 80s with a mild breeze and beautiful sunshine.

Here's Bonnie headed to the beach on Saturday. You can even see the river is mostly ocean- blue and clearer (less sediment) than we have seen previously.

The quantity of people on the beach has suddenly ramped up as well.

We headed out to try a little Mexican restaurant in a nearby area that is kind of like an outdoors mall food court. There are about 8-10 restaurants that are side-by-side kiosks with tables and chairs on the sidewalk. Thankfully, the Mexican restaurant was one of the three restaurants that were not closed due to summer vacation. Since Mexican food is not well known here, the waitress went through her spiel of explaining what the nachos were and how to eat them with the sauces provided.

We walked down the beach afterwards and at the far end is a beach sports arena erected for the summer. We watched a boys soccer game before walking back home for the night.

Sunday was fast Sunday and the new Priesthood and Relief Society manuals were passed out, except there is only one per family and none for our family since they told Bonnie in Relief Society I would get one in Priesthood meeting and they told me, Bonnie would get one in her Relief Society meeting!

Thankfully, Aaron & Emily Campbell invited us over for crepes to break our fast. Or maybe it was the kids who invited us after they heard the parents saying they were going to have crepes (creeps) for dinner! In any case we took different brands of Dulce de Leche and had a blind taste test. Here's four of the Campbell kids (Emma, Elijah, Malachi, & Madelena) doing their jobs as taste panelists.
 
 
I snapped another picture that afternoon of our very busy beach and our very un-busy road (the cars you see are all parked cars).

Monday broke with a raging thunderstorm and serious rain for about an hour and later this afternoon the weather broke and the sun peeked out at times so we went down to the beach to read a little and I snapped this shot to show the contrast of how vacant it had become from yesterday and the day before.

Bonnie is making me eat healthier (New Year's improvements) so I snapped this shot of our afternoon merienda- cheese, membrillo, carrot sticks, red peppers, tomatoes, turkey, more cheese, bread, and mayonnaise.

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Tonight we saw the movie "Avatar" in 3D. We think this may be our first 3D movie at a theater. All I'll say is the special effects are what makes the movie- $300,000,000 worth of effects, in fact!


Since the movie is nearly three hours long and started at 11:00, it is now after 3:00 AM, so I think I shall retire for the day.  G'night and God bless.