RAIN AND FOOD. FOOD AND RAIN. AND REPEAT.
What’s new in Galicia you ask? Well as far as weather
goes….NOTHING! It has been raining for an entire week! It was practically a
monsoon the other day. Alright,
maybe I’m exaggerating but if Emma and Adam were to walk outside, I’m pretty
sure they would blow away. On the
bright side, I think we are starting to adjust to the rain. We should probably invest in rain boots
soon, though. Poor Robin had
to walk home from tutoring for two miles in the pouring rain a couple days
ago. His shoes are still drying. We started a new workout routine and
were determined to follow through.
On the docket for last Friday was a 30 minute run. We waited for hours after school to see
if the downpour would let up.
Nope! We both put on our running shoes and completed that run. I felt like a true Forrest Gump. It was exhilarating!
Even the dogs here have raincoats!
Rain, like cold snowy weather, really makes you want to eat warm meals
and sweet desserts. It’s been a
struggle since Robin and I are both trying to follow a very strict calorie
intake. We cook almost all of our
meals at home, and it has been very fun to learn how to cook traditional
Spanish meals, and it has also been a little challenging to try to cook some of
our comfort foods from America here in Spain. For instance, not one store carries pre-packaged macaroni
and cheese. I told my teacher that
macaroni and cheese is one of my favorite foods, and she looked at me with a
puzzled expression.
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Paella from church. It was neat to watch them make it. This fed about 50 people!
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LIVE crabs at the weekend market. Picture this: an entire room filled
with any kind of animal from sea all available to purchase. The smell
alone was too much for me!
Fresh produce from the market. The grapes were the sweetest grapes we've ever tasted! Now if only we could make grape jam!
DAY TRIP TO CAMBADOS
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| Traditional Galician granary |
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| My goodness....is that siding made out of shells? There were many houses/businesses with this siding. |
THE GREAT PULPO (OCTOPUS) CHALLENGE OF 2013
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| Our waiter was very passionate about seafood. He was so passionate that he brought out EACH seafood menu item to our table! He set this lobster down on our rather small table while he ran inside the restaurant to dig another animal up to show us. At least we know it is fresh I guess. |
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| Before and After |
Close up of the Octopus
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| I couldn't bring myself to help Robin out; however, I did enjoy a delicious tarta de Santiago (traditional Galician cake made from crushed almonds, lemon zest, eggs, and sugar). |
We are very excited for this weekend because we will be
eating takeout pizza for the first time.
The missionary couple (Ruth and Harold) are inviting Robin and I
as well as the other American married couple from Seattle over to their house
for “jazzed up Spanish pizza” in the word’s of Harold. We have a longer weekend next weekend
for some Spanish holiday, so we are hoping to make the three hour journey to
Porto, Portugal for a day or two so we can add a sticker to our world map tracker of all the places we've traveled to.
Blessings and happy fall! We miss the fall colors! Maybe we'll just have to fry one of these crazy looking birds up for Thanksgiving. Just kidding....
-Alyssa and Robin
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