So the next morning Josh had a couple classes. We spend the morning relaxing and Dan cooked up the burrito mix so we’d have it ready. When Josh got home we started on the Coronas. One nice thing about hanging out over the course of the day is that you can have a few beers but not be drunk. So we hung out, ate food and dip and listened to Spanish music. We started with chips, salsa and guacamole. An aside about the guacamole: It was a mix we got as part of a wedding present, just add avocado. It was AMAZING. I would highly recommend it to people. Unfortunately I can’t remember the brand at the moment, but probably the best guacamole I’ve had. It helped that the avocados were huge and ripe as well.
Mid-afternoon we borrowed bikes and went for a bike ride down to a lake whose name I don’t remember at the moment either. Meade maybe? We had 4 bikes, 2 of which were perfect, one which was way too big for anyone, and one which didn’t have a seat. I had Josh’s bike at first which was too big for me but then swapped with Caleb who had Tim’s bike where you could adjust the seat height without and allen key. Josh started out on no seat and Dan on Zach’s bike and then they switchen on the ride home. We threw a Frisbee and football at the park and then sat around in the sunshine on a beautiful day. On the way back we got Jersey Junction ice cream, which was great. Dan and I split a banana split, which is something he’s been wanting all trip.
That evening we grilled at ate burritos and made horchata. That was a pretty awesome idea that Josh had that turned out great! It is a rice/almost/vanilla drink that we had in Mexico. When we went to Harvest Hands to help out one day of the week they’d take us to a place to get aguas frescas. The Horchata was the special/unique flavor. It consided of blending rice, almonds and cinnamon then stirring that powder into water. From there we strained the mixture (took a long time) through an old shirt. We didn’t have cheesecloth and tried using a coffee filter but nothing was going through that at all. The whole process was fairly time-consuming but very well worth it. After it was all finally strained we added more water, sugar and vanilla and it was done! The by-product we mixed in with honey, cranberries and chocolate chips and made cookies out of. The horchata was perfect. We had it with our meal which we ate out on the front porch. It tasted just like I remembered and is this awesomely slightly sweet and refreshing unique drink. At some point Zack and Andy came home and got to partake in our Mexican feast. An interesting thing that we learned (thank you Wikipedia) is that most of mexico doesn’t even celebrate cinco de mayo and it’s not their independence day. It is more like St Patrick’s day where Americans use it as an excuse to celebrate.
That evening Josh took a break to do more schoolwork (very enterprising of him) before we hung out and played queens. We taught Dan who ended up liking it. The loser of each round had to take a shot of tequila. Again we were hanging out in the attic for awhile until everyone was too tired to carry on.
Josh was supposed to have 2 classes the next morning so he got up early and went into school only to find out that they were both cancelled. One he had already known about but had forgotten, the other the professor was sick. It was great! So he came home much earlier than expected and we had the whole day to hang out. Which was great especially for us because we won’t be seeing him again before we go. But hopefully he’ll be able to come visit us in Australia. He’s the only family member who hasn’t been there yet! And I think he’d like it. And he’s awesome so if he did come visit it would be a lot of fun.
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