Long weekend!!

This weekend we had about 100 different ideas about what we were going to do and ended up doing none of them. However, we accomplished a lot and got to do tons of fun things in Torreon.

On Friday after school we went to the mall to eat lunch. I got Chinese. yum :-) and then of course we had to get ice cream from a really yummy place and then wandered around the mall going shopping and just enjoying the start of the weekend! After that we came home for a little while (i cleaned my room) and then one of the girls parents were here so we went out to dinner with them at Farolitos (a super cute Mexican restaurant). After that we came home and watched 16 candles.

On Saturday we were going to go to the Dunas which are giant sand dunes, we were also going to go camping in Cuarto Cinegas (these swamp things with posinous turtles, snakes, and scorpians...sounds like a blast right??), or to the Prasa about an hour away....HOWEVER, we were going to with our friend Luz and her car is not operating (they were supposed to fix it this weekend) so we did not go anywhere!

We spent time downtown going to the market and clothing and shoe stores. It was really fun, but hard to go shopping with 5 people at the same time! We didn't really find anything we wanted, but it was still fun. While we were downtown my roommate Katie opened the door to get out of the taxi without looking and a bus drove by and got scraped real bad by the taxi door and she almost died. The taxi guy was yelling at us and freaking out. It was scary.

We also stopped at the bus station to get our bus tickets for Spring Break. It's going to be so cheap. For holidays it's 50% off for students and we're Spanish students (didn't you know that ;-) ) hooray!

After that we stopped at an American import store. They had secret deodrant for $8, lucky charms for $9 a box, fruit roll-ups for $7 a box. The only thing we ended up buying was gum (it was cheap) and pop so that we could make root beer floats. As well as enjoy different flavors we can't get here. It was a fun treat and a great experince to laugh about, but not something that I will need to do again that's for sure!!

Then we came home and played games at our house. Dad these people do not know how to play rummycube they've changed all the rules. Another game we played was banannagrams. It's like scrabble speed style and everyone playing on their own boards.

On Sunday we were maybe going to go to all those places again, however the car still wasn't fixed (gotta love Mexico) so we decided to just hang out here. We ended up working for a couple hours and then getting ready to go. We saw the movie Valentine's Day (yes it just came out exactly a month later...) in the V.I.P. theater and got popcorn chicken delivered to our chairs. After the movie we decided to go to the Alameda (it's like an open market place that's full of tents that sell things and have rides-ferris wheel, spinny things for adults and the rest kids rides-and have tons of great food). It's in a little sketchy-ish part of town, but because we went with our friend Luz we weren't worried! We ended up going to this giant Pineapple that has cream cheese slushy like ice cream (don't knock it until you try it!) We also went to a silly photobooth place and got keychains made that was fun!

After the Alameda we walked to this coffee shop/bar that has a live band and candle light tables. We ordered this giant plate of nachos that had beans and guacamole underneath all the chips in the middle and on the outside their was tons of chicken and beef.

After that I came home and watched Mr. & Mrs. Smith while working on grades until 2 am and now I am enjoying a wonderful day off of school! Wuhoo for random Mexican holidays!!