Street Meat - day 2

Here is a typical day for us down with Grammy and Poppy. We get up in the morning and watch some "american" tv shows.

We get dressed and walk down to Peter and Carmen's taco stand. It is close to where Grammy and Poppy used to live. Now it is about a 10 block walk. The little old lady working the stand, is Carmen. Peter was her husband and he passed away a couple of years ago.


You tell Carmen what you would like to eat and she pulls all of the stuff from the right and throws it on the grill and starts her magic. Each day we get a breakfast burrito with eggs, chirizo, onions, cilantro and beans for Daddy. His burrito costs alot, 40 pesoes. Mommy get's a pollo quesidilla and I get a plain cheese quesidilla, each are 18 pesoes. Mmmmm good stuff.



After breakfest on the way to the beach, we stop by the juice man stand. He presses oranges, carrots, beets, pineapple and grapefruit. He might of invented the first juice box. He pours my drink into a bag with a straw and then ties it up for me. This is really good stuff. Nothing like fresh juice every morning for 10 pesoes. That is about 75 cents or so.





For lunch we either eat at the beach and get some BBQ'ed shrimp or chicken on a stick that they walk around with or we walk to the lunch time taco stand called Marisca's. They only do seafood tacos. This up is a bit more upscale. You actually sit down, order your food from the menu on the wall and they bring it to you. Here each taco has some cabbage, carrots and then fish or shrimp. These are really good only cost 13 pesoes each..that is less than a dollar. Goodbye McDonalds menu...hello fish tacos.





I then come home and take a quick siesta. Mommy takes a siesta with me also. We get up and we deciede what to do for the rest of the night. We usually go across this really scary suspension bridge. Daddy has a movie of this that I will put up later. Then we walk down the river walk area with lot's of shops and everyone is always trying to sell us something. We get down to the Malacon where Grammy and Poppy know everyone and we walk from one end to the other. Once it is dark, we walk back to the church that is close to the house where the churro man is.




The churro man is great. He has built this custom machine that pushes the dough out like a chaulking gun, then cuts it into the hot oil. Then he picks them up and throws them in the brown sugar container and shakes them up. We then get the grande bag and walk home to have these for a snack. The grande bag only costs 20 pesoes. A big bottle of milk caps off the night.

This is just a fun day being in a new country. Will try to update again tomorrow with our day on the sailboat and Mommy's day as a dolphin trainer.

Adios amigo's