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Day 16: 25 June 2002 - "The greatest love story ever told... between Jean-Claude Van Damme and his Uzi X32 machine gun."
We had soup for lunch, which was very nice for me, with my little cold. The best part was taking some ají, a spicy mixture of diced tomatoes and onions, on my spoon and mixing it with the broth. I had a lot of sinus pressure and the best cure for that is something spicy that makes your nose run. Ew. Probably more information than you needed. Anyway, I love soup. It ranks up there with french fries and empanadas.
Soup helped to clear me up, but I wanted to kill the cold for once and for all, so we set off in the afternoon to find something to cure it. I don't like to take medicine if I can avoid it, so we just got some Vitamin C tablets. They are melon, orange, cherry, lemon and grape flavored and we have been eating them since we bought them. Grape is bad. You can have them if you want.
After buying the Vitamin C, we were hungry but it was still a while till tea. So we went to the mall's food court and got a basket of sausages and french fries to share. From where we sat, we could look out over the plaza but instead we sat there trying to quote Office Space. Sigh. That's us, ever the romantics.
After that, we went browsing around some of the nearby stores. While staring at globes, we ran into Pato's friend Froilan and a friend of his, a Mormon who was shopping for his upcoming mission trip to Colombia. It was suggested that rather than looking for a camera, he should be looking for a bulletproof vest. The most amusing thing about the Mormon friend was that I was introduced to him, we walked around for a while, and then when Froi asked me a question I didn't understand, he looked surprised and asked if I was a gringa. That was pretty impressive, because at dinner the other night, we had been talking about how Grace and I are always instantly recognized as gringas.
In the evening, we came home and watched Neon Genesis Evangelion. Drat. I am hooked.
