The first couple of days

     I'm sitting here with a tummy full of Ser Pomelo Rosado sin azucar y calorias, Coca-Cola light, and medialunas.  My legs are sore from all the walking and I'm ready to take a siesta.  So far, I love it here.

       We woke up yesterday and realized we needed to venture out and pick up some close toed shoes for me, and a sweatshirt for Bill.  On Bill's adventure around the area the day before, he came across a mall nearby so we headed there.  First stop, desayuno (breakfast).  The flights were starting to catch up with us and while Liam was babbling away in his stroller, Bill and I were slugging along.   We wound up at Burger King in the food court because there was a short line, they had pictures, and we knew for sure they were serving breakfast.  Dos cafes and 4 medialunas sounded like a great breakfast to us!
       So the coffee here is STRONG.  Bill loves it.  I added two packs of sugar and had to wait for it to cool down before I could drink it.  As someone who used to live on large iced flavored Dunkin Donut coffees, these hot and small but powerful cafes are going to take some getting used to.   Medialunas are like croissants, but much sweeter.  I can tolerate about 1.  Although, this morning I bought Bill one that had dulce de leche on top with powdered sugar.  I could probably have about 10 of those!
      Hyped on caffeine and pastries, we ventured around the mall in search of clothes.  The malls tend to have more upscale stores and didn't really fit our needs. We stopped in at Nike to look at sweatshirts and realized they are more expensive than in the US!   We left the mall in search of bus passes  and started walking around all the small streets in the city.  There are boutiques everywhere and I found some Tom like shoes and then we found a discount mall where Bill got a sweatshirt and Tshirt.  No bus passes though.
     We walked around for almost 3 hours trying to find bus passes.  They don't use the term billetes for tickets, or autobus for bus.  There goes my limited Spanish.  One place told us a name for them, but still no luck.  We finally called it a day after we had walked up and down Avenue San Martin about 10 times looking for various places we had been told sold them.
   Turns out, we need a tarjeta (card) for the RedBus.  The woman whose apt we are staying in bought us some and helped us figure out how to get to the house we are going to look at today.
   Bill looked at the house last night and really liked it.  We are looking at it tonight and hopefully will get it.
   We ordered delivery last night.  The restaurants don't open until about 9 oclock so it is a weird adjustment to eating on that schedule. Very delicious Italian food here.

Since this posting is getting quite long, I'll save today's adventures for another one.