The past 2 or 3 weeks we've gotten to hang out with some pretty cool people (and eat lots of good food with them)!!
One Sunday evening before heading to church, we went over to Jamie and Andrew Goodwin's piso for some sweet Mexican food!!! You'd be surprised at how many people would ask me, "Wesley, aren't you going to get tired of Mexican food over there?".............
Mexican = comes from Mexico. Spanish = comes from Spain. Just because they speak Spanish doesn't mean they always eat burritos and enchiladas... Spain is probably one of the last places you will find Mexican food.... we went to Barcelona last weekend and saw a restaurant named "Mi Burrito y Yo" and it was all seafood....
We were dying to get us some great Mexican food and hang out with new friends on top of that!!! Andy and Jamie were great hosts and have the coolest little piso with there own private terrace right in the heart of the city. They are also expecting a little chiquitito baby!! Which is going to be born in Spain in just a few months! We are super glad to know them!
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| Gofresssss w/ Greek yogurt and rasberry jellllllyy |
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| Chowing down on some sweet desert. |
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| a nice waffle/moustache combo |
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| Sarah was taking the photo! |
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| Here is Jordan always copying me with the dark jeans and dark green jacket combo. Also the view was nice!! |
In the middle of hanging with friends, we had a little Valentine's Day celebration! It was more of just an excuse for a day of baking in the kitchen because we celebrated our 6 month anniversary/Valentine's day in Barcelona. I asked our neighbor's what they were doing for the Day of Lovers and he responded by saying that they celebrate everyday by being in love. Good call.
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| Thanks America for your easy-bake items. |
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| Look at this Don Juan Casanova. |
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| Only people in Spain with a full-sized oven.... |
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| Emma got me some awesomeee chocolate!!! |
One evening about 2 weeks ago, we invited our neighbors, Cristina and Pedro, over to help teach us how to cook the infamous Spanish tortilla (basically just potatoes and eggs.. but super special potatoes and eggs). The difficulty with the Spanish tortilla is that it has a tendency to just come out as scrambled eggs with potatoes if you don't flip it right.... or fall in the floor if you just stink at cooking like the guy writing this blog....
Cristina and Pedro are an awesome pair. Pedro is an awesome painter and Cristina is another one of our friends expecting a baby in the near future! They live directly across from us and also have a nice place in the country and have invited us to come visit one day. Upon my second time of meeting Pedro, I kind of invited myself in their house and found Pedro reading the Bible (which caught me off guard in general) and I asked him randomly if he liked reading it and he responded "Es lo mejor que hay" (It's the best there is!) Blam, right off the bat, we got something cool in common and I knew we'd be friends.
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| Ladies choppin potatoes. |
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| Barely 3 people fit in our kitchen at a time. And they only fit in a line. |
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| a;lskdfjaov;ilekrsdfhgsrdfjxavnmoilskdj... We flipped it right. |
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| master flipper pedro. and look at my sweet hand posture. |
After whipping up a nice meal of Spanish tortilla, Pedro and Cristina took us out for some good ol' friend seafood. We haven't tried any since we've been here in Sevilla, but you better believe Emma and I will be going back for more.
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| Fried Chipirones! you better believe those are little tentacles. |
The night before hitting up Barcelona, our German friends, Albrecht and Francesca, came over for some sweeeet pasta! They are probably the German version of us! Albrecht likes music and has a super goofy sense of humor and Francesca is sweet as pie like my little Emmiegirl (but Emmie's the sweetest in the world). We have been trying to meet up with them ever since our first encounter at church last October. They study here in Sevilla and have adopted a little cat off the streets named Mookie! The cool thing about our friendship is that neither of us communicate in our first language!! They speak German and Spanish and we speak English and Spanish. We loved talking together because we can all practice our Spanish without shame! Everything is also funnier when you don't exactly know what you're saying. They also got married a week before we did and packed up and headed to Sevilla just like us!! Another reason they are super cool!
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| awwwwwwwwwwwwwww! |
The day we got back from Barcelona, our friends N'SYNC were doing a concert in Sevilla and picked us up at the airport on the way back in to town. We showed them around town, the usual dirt roads and open cotton fields, and then we taught them how to really wear blue jean jackets and wife-beaters. I love these guys! We spent the afternoon laughing and joking like we used to. I also put highlights in J.C.'s hair on our terrace and we went to Claire's to get Lance's ears pierced. Later that night, we watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding because Emma loves Joey in that movie.... I gave in because I secretly like him too.... The next morning, before they left, consisted of playing with our Tamagachi's and Pogs and talking about Britney Spears... It was good to hang out with old friends and I even came away with some sweet flair jeans from L.E.I that Chris didn't want anymore. Hopefully we'll see them again soon...
which one of these doesn't belong??....
I know......
I might actually make more posts about Spain if I didn't spend all my time photoshoppin' myself in random photos..... pero, disfrutan!
Hasta Ahora.....
