Greek food, movies and why I hate jelly bellys

This weekend was another beautiful sunny weekend. Saturday Andrea had a birthday party for one of her friends. The girls had a fun time gossiping and eating food. At least that is what I'm told. I wasn't there and when I went to pick her up she looked at me and asked me what I was doing there, as if she was going to magically find her way home. Ahh...the teenage years, we have arrived. I told her I was there to embarrass her. *grin*

Nick wanted to go out for dinner. We still haven't found any great Spanish places to go out for dinner. We started out going to the mall by the Aquarium where there is some restaurants. On the way Jess made a plea to head to the mall with the VOS movies. VOS is something like Version Original Soundtrack. That means, American movies are in English and, bonus points for education, subtitles in Spanish. Usually we have to wait for American movies to make their way across the pond but for some reason High School Musical 3 opened right along with you. Yay us. So, we changed plans and went to the mall with the movies and planned to have dinner there. Alexa had eaten at a restaurant there with one of her friends when they went to a movie. She kept raving about how good the food was so Nick decided to we'd go there. Then, Alexa said it was Greek food. A short time later it was decided that I would take Alexa and Jess who was up for a culinary adventure to the Greek restaurant. Nick took Andrea and Joe to Burger King.

The restaurant was great. The service was really helpful, which is really not the norm here in Spain. Usually they are really indifferent. But, they helped us pick out some food. We tried a cucumber soup, a beef dish and a chicken platter that included a hummus and something pureed but red...maybe with peppers or sundried tomatoes. I'm not sure but both spreads were amazingly good. The soup was good too but the girls didn't love it. The chicken was a hit. The beef not so much. It was fun trying the food and the girls were good sports and even complimented the chef to the waiter on the way out.

Before we entered the movie we let the kids pick some candies. Alexa picked an assortment of Jelly belly jelly beans. I didn't give it a thought. We settled in to watch the movie. It was very Disney. The kids enjoyed it. Half way through Alexa leaned over and said she just had a jelly bean that tasted like peanut butter and her throat was itchy. I took her out and we checked out her throat. As luck would have it, I didn't have the benedryl with me. I had taken it out when we went to a park and I wasn't going to bring my purse. But, we were in a mall with a Farmacia so we headed there for some antihistimine. She was worried but she was fine. We got her some antihistimine and actually went back and finished the movie. She was fine but a little shaken.

The benedryl is back in my purse and no more Jelly Bellys for us. I don't know why I hadn't thought about that before. Jessica is already talking about getting the DVD to the movie. It actually has some really cute moments. It totally reminded me of Footloose in certain parts though. If you've seen it let me know if you agree.

Sunday we woke up to our clocks all reading different times. It was all very confusing until we realized it was daylight standard time here. *grin* Oops. So, we fixed all our clocks. If you take a look, until you all have your daylight savings time we're only 5 hours ahead.

Good News on the Visa front that we just heard today. Our application has reached the embassy in Barcelona and it's all "positive". We hope to hear in the next two weeks that the Visa is ready to be picked up. Yay yay!!! I'm just so excited that we're not going to be illegal aliens. Thanks to St Jude for that...and the prayers (Mo!! you rock). Talk about quick service.

We're getting ready for a school party for Halloween. It's different here...no pumpkins, no decorations. I miss the lead up to the holiday. It's one of my favorite American Holidays. I love the dress up and pretend parts of it. I love the imagination of the holiday. So everyone have fun this Friday trick or treating!!! And eat some candy corn for me. ...drink a little apple cider too.
And....someone make some manwhiches!!!!

Love you all!!!
Bren