Dinosaurs

2 more hours of Spanish this morning but I feel we still have some more work to do...during the marking of our homework, I'd written "the door is bored" and Anna wrote "I'm speaking to a lettuce because I'm on a diet". Hmm.

After school, our teacher Vicky took us to a locals place to eat where we had quinoa soup and some veggie dish. We paid for hers too and total was 30B! Bargain. However these places don't look like restaurants so we'd never have gone in on our own. We also picked up some amazing carrot juice and carrot cakes from the man next door for next to nothing.

Then we went off to Parque Cretacico where they discovered a load of dinosaur footprints in a quarry in 1994. We got a public chicken bus (on the third attempt, the first 2 were jammed) for 3B for both of us. The very hyper, overenthusiastic Juan Carlos (call me JC) gave us a tour of the small park which is made up of an upright wall of footprints (tectonic shifts have moved it from a flat lake) and a load of dinosaur models and roaring noises. The best part for me was the dino-themed kiddies playground!

Another chicken bus back through the crazy, busy market and we got off at the Plaza and headed to Condor Cafe again for dinner. We shared the menu del dia - quinoa soup; chips, spicy rice and a gorgeous fried aubergine thing; and a banana-choc muffin for 25B. Throw in an amazing cup of hot chocolate for me and beer for Anna and we were nice and full.Read more