Vacation for Day--an excuse for food pics. May 9-10, 2007
Fried shrimp, Southern style. May 9, 2007 7:20pm
I seriously needed a vacation and didn't have the time or money to go out of town so I did the closest thing: I just unplugged. For a whole 24 hours, I did not answer my phone (put it on silent mode and hid it from view) or log on to the Internet. But the challenge was to keep myself so occupied or entertained that I wouldn't be tempted to plug back in even for a minute. Well it just so happened a flamenco friend invited me over.
I used this as an excuse to take food pics--since I know a lot of you enjoy very much my blogs with food pics.
So we started off hanging out in the kitchen and enjoyed a few drinks before heading over to the porch and enjoyed a Southern-style shrimp fry. The weather was perfect--the heat and humidity was perfectly counterbalanced with an occasional cool breeze...
Fried fish and margaritas. May 9, 2007 7:33pm
Margaritas are best enjoyed when the weather is on the warm side. My friend cooked shrimp and fish, a handful at a time, and served them still sizzling from the fryer, yummy!
Wind chimes galore. May 9, 2007 8:21pm
Between the seafood, the margaritas and the leisurely conversation, time just flew by. When we were done it was dark outside. Honestly, I didn't even know what time it was since I didn't have my phone clock handy--it was a good thing though.
Berry tart for dessert. May 9, 2007 8:46pm
After dessert, we improvised some tangos, bulerías and rumbas for hours. My friend mentioned that it was almost 2:00am (grrr--why did you have to tell me the time? 
) Anywayz, we reached the point where I seriously couldn't really play guitar anymore. To close the evening, we decided to be couch potatoes and watched a DVD. Of all the movies to choose we finally decided on Déjá Vu starring Denzel Washington. I had seen it before, but I didn't tell me my friend that.
Got to bed around 4:00am and woke up around noon on Thursday. Had breakfast for lunch and hung out for a few more hours before finally saying goodbye. Ended up meeting another flamenco friend for an early dinner at Guarapo in Arlington around 6:00pm...
Carne con aji arepa--grilled corn cake stuffed with steak and chimichurri served with iceberg lettuce, pico de gallo and plaintains. May 10, 2007 6:01pm
The weather was gorgeous again and most of the people sat at the outdoor tables, but my friend preferred the indoors. We both ordered the same thing: carne con aji arepa. It was light and delicious. She was on break from work so we didn't have a lot of time for something more elaborate.
Me and my dinner. May 10, 2007 6:02pm (photo by my friend)
May 10, 2007 6:20pm
It's 2:14am right now. Thanks to the all-nighter with my friend the previous night, I'm back to my "vampire" schedule again. Oh well. Even at this hour it's pretty warm and for the first time this year, I'm actually using the air-conditioner. Gonna to sign off and try to get some sleep--can't afford to get sick y'know! Ciao for now.
P.S. I just noticed that the Washington Post mentioned the upcoming DC Feria de Sevilla in the Weekend Section. It's coming up a week from this Sunday on May 20th at Strathmore. If you wanna get psyched, check out the Feria pics from last year.
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