Milk, Peanut butter, Brownie Mix, Laundry, etc, etc.

The weather here reminds me a lot of Oklahoma, except maybe not quite as extreme. 

This is the view from my balcony.

One minute it is warm and the sun is out; the next minute it's cold and rainy. Hey at least there hasn't been any snow! I do miss thunder and lightning....When it rains here it is just rain. I have yet to hear a thunderous crackle from the sky or see an electric beam of light shoot out from a cloud. I miss it.

Amoung other things I miss [slash] trying to get use to....Milk, Peanut Butter, Brownie Mix, PDA, Movie Theaters, Siestas, and laundry. Let me elaborate.

Milk: We had the hardest time finding milk in the supermarket. Naturally you walk to the refrigerated area to search for milk, right? Well that is not the case here, except for in a few stores. Milk is not refrigerated! We were very sceptical to purchase milk that shared a shelf with bread and toilet paper. Our initial thought was milk HAS to be refrigerated! Otherwise wouldn't it spoil? Well I did some research online and apparently their milk is ultra-pasteurized causing it to have a longer shelf life. We "cowboy upped" and bought a liter of milk that was on a shelf today. I'll let you know if it tastes any different. Definitely something I will have to get use to.

Peanut Butter: Soooo hard to find! We have to make a special trip to the one store we have seen that sold it or dig in our pockets and purchase it at the Cake House.

Brownie Mix: We have recently become friends with the philopino women that run the Cake House. Their establishment is the ONLY place we have found a brownie mix box and honey mustard. Both were very expensive. Back home it's what 88 cents for a pillsbury brownie mix box? At the cake house it's 5 euros! I guess it is strategy if you think about. They are the Cake House. Why would they want to sell a box at 88 cents that would make a whole panful of brownies, when you could buy one brownie there for 1 euro.

PDA (Public Display of Affection): Call me conservative, innocent, prude or whatever... I just don't think this is something I will ever get use to! I wonder how many babies are named after the metro stop they were conceived at? Ok, I'm exaggerating. It isn't quite to that extreme. Still why can't people just wait until they get home and then get after it. I don't want to see you slobbering/sucking face all over eachother.

Movie theaters: The ticket stub for your movie tells you where to sit. We have been to the theater twice now and both times I don't think we sat in the right spot. Luckly the movie was not sold out. Otherwise we might of had a few anger spaniards telling us to get out of their seat. Pros to this system: They don't sell more tickets then seats. Ever had that happen to you? I have it was a terrible experience. Cons: Making people get up so that you can get to your seat with your hands full with popcorn and coke...and trying to find your seat in the dark is also a challenge.

Siestas: I think my dad would absolutely love it here for the sole fact that everything shuts down for a few hours at lunch. This is spanish "nap time". If you need to get your errands done around 2 to 4 (sometimes 6 depending on the place) then you can forget about it.

Laundry: Hanging your clothes out to dry is a chore. Mostly because we only brought a limited amount of clothing items for six months. It might not be as bad if I had my whole closet of things to wear, but when you've only have X amont of undies you have to think about the weather and how long things take to hang dry. Especially with the weather as rainy as it has been lately. Our clothes have been strung all throughout the apartment this week trying to get them to dry. I'd also like to add that underwear and jeans just doesn't wear the same when they have been hung out to dry...

Well that's all for now. I'm going to continue to look for classes to enroll in.

Later Gator,

Kimee Paige

Oh I almost forgot! The italian girl we couldn't find the first time we went to see a movie, went with us the second time. However this time instead of trying to meet at a certain point we met her at her metro stop and then went to the movie together.

Proof

Proof we also roller skated in the park!

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one."

-Elbert Hubbard