Dateline Sunday: Family Dinner

In lieu of studying for my midterms I’m going to take some time to describe this evening’s dinner with you.

It all began this afternoon right before lunch… Laura was going to visit her mother and brothers back in the “pueblo” and little did I know it but she would be bringing home some surprises.

Right after we finished our lunch of spaghetti with dried fruits and nuts (a dish Laura later claimed to have tasted like a Hindi desert) Edson informed me that he was off to meet up with his friends and to buy some more hashish (that’s right our good friend Maria is coming to stay for a while).

Anyway, I did pretty much nothing all day and when Laura arrived home from her mother’s at around 5:30 she informed me in English that she had brought “lots of goodies from the village!” Curious I began to look around. It wasn’t until after Laura returned from the pool at her spa that I got the grand tour of the food. Included in the horde was some ham (SURPRISE!), a loaf of special braided bread (taste and texture similar to a French bread but maybe a little harder on the outside), some potato chips (best I’ve ever had), an assortment of cookies, muffins, an apple tart-ish thing, and, oh I don’t know, about 5 pounds of grapes. Anyway after explaining to me exactly what it all was Laura asked, “¿Quieres cenar con el plan dulce?” (Do you want to do the sweet plan for dinner?) Not being one to express how I actually feel, I said sure.

And that brings us to dinner. What did I eat? Well, I had some chips, grapes, three cookies, a muffin, and that apple thing… Oh and a glass of water. In the middle of dinner Laura decided she wanted some cerveza (beer) and left to get it at “Los Chinos” (if I haven’t explained it before and I’m not sure that I have, Los Chinos is basically a dollar+ store run by Asians. That’s right, in Spain it doesn’t matter of what decent you are, if you’re Asian, you’re a Chino.) When she came back she poured herself a tall glass and ate her dessert/dinner. After we finished, well actually after Edson finished, he went on a frantic search for his last rolling paper and after finding it in the trash began to roll himself a nice joint. As I finished up eating Edson began toking.

So there you have it. A nice, normal Sunday family dinner. Just me, my alcoholic mommy, drug addicted dad, and our green leafy cousin Maria. (I only say these things in jest, neither Laura nor Edson have any addictions that I know of…) Now my sugar-high self is gunna attempt to study until the IBS kicks in from the large amounts of oil and butter that were in those pastries and chips…

Happy Monday everyone. Oh and happy birthday Evan!