Sunday, the day of rest, turned out to be the busiest day yet. I didn’t awake until 8:30 this morning because the barking dogs and car horns didn’t begin until then… Lew and I finally cornered Diego to do some real work today, not just talking about work like we usually do. We inventoried all the drugs and put together a kit of things needed for the spay/neuter campaign to begin tomorrow. This took a few hours, but by noon we were ready to go to PAE to pick up the last of the things needed and then head over to the municipal shelter for some last minute rearrangement of furniture.
We finally got the chance to get home to pick up Sandy for lunch around 2:30 and headed over for another local meal. I played it safe today and got chicken soup (again, a cilantro based soup with an entire chicken leg in it). Lew, on the other hand, let Diego order for him and ended up with cow foot soup. It didn’t look very appealing… I did find out what stomach soup was called though, caldo 31. Caldo means soup, but no one has any idea why the 31... I suggested maybe 31 parts of the cow that no one else in the world eats? Who knows. We also tried jugo naturale, which is a juice made of corn. Here everything is made of corn or has corn in it. The juice tasted like it was fermented and was just shy of becoming moonshine.
After lunch, Sandy, Ali, Emma, Manu, Danny, and I went to the pool. Between the pool, sauna, steam room, and the hot tub, we were there for hours. Manu, Sandy, and I swam and played for a significant portion of the time.
Upon leaving, we grabbed a glass of morocho (again, this is corn, but it tastes like cornbread in a drink) and headed to the pizzeria to pick up vegan pizzas for the arrival of the vegan americans who were recruited to help with the campaign. We quickly ate some pizza also, but ours was a real pizza with cheese.
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