I truly wish I had carried my camera last night to the tapas
restaurant! Brian, Kassie, the kids, and
I went to a tapas place that serves seafood, and between the food and our faces
it was definitely picture-worthy. The
plate of ham they brought first leads me to believe that Spaniards eat the fat
along with the meat off of a pig leg.
The legs are hanging everywhere in store windows and meat sections –
they are pretty popular. The jamón
serrano (or dry-cured meat) is decent, but I think I’ll stick with mostly the
lunch meat variety.
The calamari they brought out looked quite normal and was
delicious. It was followed by a plate of
octopus, which was indeed more “live looking.”
Cora was definitely unsure at first, and Kassie and I were pretty
hesitant. Anything that looks like the
animal is more or less a bit scary to me.
Brian helped me out with talking about the suction cups on the legs. Ha. It’s
still kind of getting my stomach turning.
It was better than I thought it would be, but the chewiness (involving
almost more than teeth to cut) was a little disconcerting. My decision is next time I’ll probably stick
with the calamari. J
Malaki, Cora, and Jairus all enjoy pretending to be animals,
and the animal of choice at the park last evening was the wolf dog. I love kids’ imaginations. They are good at making up stories about hyenas
stealing a family of cats and then proceeding to save the cat family. I uploaded a video of Cora and Jairus from
last week pretending to be dogs with their popcorn. It gave me a good laugh and thought you might
enjoy it too!
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