Banana milkshake & Cheese

Day 20- Sunday Shake & Shop

Today we returned to church at Buen Pastor (Good Shepherd). It was a great message but unfortunately Spanish church goes for hours and hours. This particular church thinks that it is a good idea to have praise and worship then a premessage (the length of a message) and then praise and worship number 2 and then the message. It is exhausting! We travel an hour to church and then church goes for 2 and half hours. Additionally, because church is in spanish the girls translate it for us. To make it easy they leave out any of the light stuff jokes, stories etc. So today sermon number one was really good and I would have been totally cool if it stopped there.

Hungry and warn out we made our way to Wistupiku, the empanada restaurant we went to the first Saturday we arrived. Tiff and I both thought it would be a great idea if we ordered banana milkshakes and cheese empanadas. Cheese and banana milkshake actually don't go down that well together and we felt sooo sick! The staff from Casa de Amor had brought a number of the older children (still between the ages of 1-3yrs) to Wistupiku for lunch. Amazingly all the kids recognised us and jumped into our arms when we arrived.

We then crossed the road and went to IC Norte to do our grocery shopping. Grocery shopping here is quite different. There is hardly any fresh fruit and vegies because everyone buys these goods at markets. Alcohol is sold in the supermarket and is crazy cheap. There is hardly any chocolate much to Tiffany and I's dismay, we have resorted to buying giant toblerone to get us through the week. This country is chocolate retarded! They really like wierd things like drinkable yoghurt, and wafer biscuits but there are no potato chips and hardly any types of cheese. They have lots of random softdrinks like coconut and peach. In fact, they love peach everything; peach drinkable yoghurt, peach flavoured biscuits, lollies, ice-cream. They're nuts for peach! Oh and all bread here tastes and feels like it is stale. We have enjoyed eating these random foods but I am so grateful for the variety we have in Australia.