The first day!

Well, where do I start? I woke up and kind of laid in bed a little because I was just getting used to being somewhere else when I wake up. Then was breakfast. I had an apple while Clara made some fresh orange juice, and boy was it fresh, she didn´t add any sugar or anything so it was pretty sour. I also tried some milk......interesting. There are two kinds of milk they have. One kind of like skim, and another they call ´fat milk´ which I figure is kind of like whole milk. Well I REALLY don´t like skim milk at home, so I decided to have some of the other kind. It was pretty much cream it was so thick, and it didn´t taste ANYTHING like milk. It was pretty disgusting, but I don´t have to drink it. Then, Teresa, the mom, and I went to a farmers market and bought some fruit and then looked around because there were a lot of clothes booths and other things. They have this market every saturday morning so I was just looking but I saw a few things that I liked, so maybe I´ll buy them later. Then we came back and I was just doing nothing for a while and then my bags came. I think I probably brought way too many clothes, but well, I can´t do anything about that now. We started going through the Salt Lake City book I brought with my trying to explain things in my broken Spanish, I´m surprised they even understood what I was trying to say, but they´re very kind about trying to understand me. Then they took me out to see the city. I haven´t really been in other big cities, so I can´t really compare it to an American city, but I assume it´s like New York or Chicago. Most of the streets are just random, and even if I could I wouldn´t want to drive here because I would be very lost. I´m used to a good ol´ grid system. And the drivers are crazy. You can drive pretty much anywhere there isn´t a car and most of the time where there already is. Most people just nose their way in when they want to change lanes so you have to slam on the brakes a lot. There aren´t really many left hand turns, mostly you turn right and then there is a semicircle for you to stop in to go to the other street. Most of the people here, well all really, live in apartments, and below these apartments are stores. There are so many little stores that it would take forever to go to them all, but a lot of them are kind of dirty looking. In the actual city there are so many beautiful buildings. Every other street has a plaza and in the center, like downtonw, the plaza has a beautiful sculpted fountain. There is one of Neptune that I like a lot, but I wasn´t able to get a picture today. We drove around the city a lot and then we got out of the car and walked into this place called the plaza mayor, like the biggest plaza. There was this guy there who was playing what looked like a harpsichord like (wow I´m already loosing my grip on english) like those things you hit with mallets, you know what I mean. I took a video of it and I´ll try to put it up here. Well mostly we just walked around, but we did stop in a shop and had their version of hot chocolate, which really is melted chocolate. I didn´t really drink that much. We walked around more and then we left for the birthday dinner for Teresa´s mom. We ate at a Columbian restaurant and I got SO full.

This is a picture of the city from a satellite I assume.

This is km 0, like mile 0.

I didn´t flip this but this is the cupola, or dome, of the royal cathedral, which is right next to the palace. The architecture and ornamentation on this building is just beautiful.

This is one of the statues that they have in the plazas. This is Fillipe the Fourth I believe.

Well that´s all I have to say for today, plus I´m pretty tired seeing as it is 1:44 here. It´s funny because the digital clocks, when it´s 12:01 just say 0:01, it´s literally one......I love you all and thank you for your comments! Feel free to send me emails too, at kelcy.molyneux@gmail.com. Love you!