Sunday, January 4, 2009

Jan 3 ' Market Day \ Mayhem at ¨¨Los Tacos¨Restaurant

Gotta love the market days in Central America.
Casey´s favorite - shopping day!
We found a new place, the Juma Ocag, right across from our fav new place ' Weiner´s!
or maybe it´s Weinders, not sure.
Ok
Shopped up a storm, came out ok with a few cool things.
Decided we were doing the volcano hike tommorrow so we had to find better shoes. we wandered through the market and found that they sell all kinds of used stuff, but sort of set up like winners, casey and I each found boots for our hike. $30 for 2 pairs, not bad.
Casey also found the peanut stand lady who he visited today also (Jan 4)

Did our usual, wandering about to find a place for dinner and then got cleaned up.
We decided to try Los Tacos. Sounds fine, right? The menu was only in spanish, which was fine except for the few words I could not figure out.
We wandered in, only gringos of course, a family with 2 kids and 2 guys who had polished off about 6 litres of Gallo beer. We decided to stay.
Buddy at table 2 decided to befriend us, which was fun, for now.
we did not know what to order, so he decided to walk into the kitchen and get various samples off the menu. Wait, it gets better. He brought us a ¨deliciouso..something ¨ - turned out to be grissle, fat chunks and some sort of sauce. Basically unedible. The best part was that buddy from table 2 fed it to both Casey and I, to the pure delight of the rest of the customers.
We ended up ordering a carne taco for casey and pollo for me. Mine came with a piece of chicken, bones and all, Casey´s looked like a small dead squirrel on a bun. Did I mention the 3 tortillas and that you have to cut your stuff up (ie ' meat) and throw it into the tortilla. this while buddy from table 2 keeps at it, and gets louder and crazier. It was getting a bit, iffy, he went to the bathroom, we each downed a beer in like 20 seconds, dropped our money in the kitchen and ran down the street.
Where did we go, our fav place, Weinder´s . Casey was able to order spaghetti bolognese and we had more beer.

Today, volcano action...

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