It is raining here in Sao Paulo so of course we headed to the nearest establishment and started drinking. As we sat watching the numerous meats flow by, anticipating dinner, we thought of all the things we forgot to blog about so here is our top 10 drunken retro-active blog entries in no paticular order of importance (we are still drinking so take with a grain of salt in your beer).
#1 Farley Dinner - Only because of the massive drinking that night, we failed to blog about this earlier. We met up with Kevin and LeeAnne (Friends from the Bay Area) for dinner on our last night in BA and while they were on their honeymoon. Met them in the bar of the Four Seasons and after a few drinks went out to dinner. 3 hours, 2 bottles of wine, and a few random cocktails later we went to a club called Aisia de Cuba. Needless to say I still smelled like a brewery when we got up to catch the plane to Sao Paulo the next day. Congratulations Kevin and LeeAnne we'll see you when we get back.
#2 Shopping in Buenos Aires - Amie got a kick ass dress from a designer boutique in BA. She is really hoping Meg won't make her wear a bridesmaid dress for her wedding..... Gotta love a peso crisis. I managed to get talked into buying a few shirts and some Miami Vice style shoes.
#3 Stalker Cabbie - Linda lost her glasses on the way back to the hotel last night. We searched the cab but nothing. When we came out for dinner later we found the cabbie waiting for us and he had found her glasses! We decided to let him take us to dinner but just around the corner his cab broke down so we had to jump into another. Our three hour dinner was great and when we came out to hail a cab he had gotten a new car and come to the restaurant and waited for us. We jumped in and we all hoped he wouldn't be waiting for us anywhere else....
#4 Dinner and the wine - I know we are wine snobs, so this one hurt a little bit. John and Linda insisted on ordering a Rheisling, at first we thought we were in the clear when the didn't have any but then they had us order a Gwerstamiener. Not a big deal, we recovered by ordering a nice Montepulciano for us.
#5 John and his spanish (need more Ice) - John (Dave's dad) needs Ice. So, he had to learn some spanish. At age 64 he learned a few phrases, hielo por favor. Only problem he put them to use for the first time in Brazil (of course they speak Portugese).
#6 Palta Hotdog and the grilled cheese - Going way back on this but I had to describe my hot dog my last day in Chile. Hot dog, loads of "Palta" (AKA Guacamole), then tomato, mustard and a super generous helping of mayonaise, sounds disgusting I know especially since I had to take it to go and eat in on the bus 35 minutes later. I'm totally rebuilding this monkey when I get home for you non-belivers. As far as the grilled cheese, that is exactly what they did. Put 2 thick slices directly on the grill. After it melts, they scrape if off and put it on to whatever you ordered. I am in heaven.
#7 Preservationed - A colorful term our tour guide used all morning. This building was "perservationed" in 1963..... Sort of like in Peru where our guide kept telling us about the ceremonial "grapeing" of the women.
#8 Non Alcoholic Beer - Sad but true, at a cafe Amie ordered a strange and exotic sounding beer. Little did I know it was non-alcoholic and it tasted totally disgusting. I had to pour it into the gutter when no one was looking. So embarrassing.
#9 Drugs - I don't know what it is about me but I get offered drugs every where I go. This might break the record, it was the first time it happened in the airport. (Santiago)
#10 Why we should blog seperatly - Amie and I fight so badly over the blog it isn't funny. Yes, I have diareah of the moth and can't spell or make coherant thoughts but at least it's interesting. Amie then edits it after the fact. If she just wrote it you would just have a list of cities with no colorful thoughts. You may have noticed that the first person randomly switches during the blog entry.
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