Time in Villa Maria

This place is beautiful. It reminds of the Gig Harbor area in the Pacific Northwest. There aren't boats on the lake like Gig Harbor, but it has the same small town feel. It's very clean, well kept up and there are flowers everywhere.  I really like it here, it's not as busy as the capital city of Cordoba, but not too small where you can't find things to do.
 Her family is very loving, and fun. She has a little brother of 18 and her older sister is 25 or 26. Last night her mom made three pizzas for dinner and we ate all but 3 slices. One pizza had cheese and tuna, another had boiled eggs that were shredded like cheese, and another with salami and cheese. She made a dessert where she put whole apples in a pan with sugar and red wine and kept it covered over the burner for an hour. She chilled the apples and served it with a sweet cream.
   Marini, her sister and I slept in the same room and we were asleep within 10 minutes. We stayed up late talking around the dinner table. One of her friends has a 2 year old son, and he says my name perfectly. People here have a hard time pronouncing my name but he can do it perfectly. Everyone was gathered around him telling him to say my name, "Come se llama ella?!" and when he did there was an outburst of laughter. One lady I met last night told everyone to ask me what my name was. When I said, Colleen... they would look at me funny. The following question was, "De donde sos?" Where are you from? It's a dead give away. I'm not from Argentina, because I have a weird name. :)

Pictures above: That strange orange flower is in her backyard, I'm going to ask what it's called. It's crazy looking.  We walked around last night and took pictures by the famous clock of flowers. The last picture, is the one and only flan. Flan is pretty popular here.

It's raining today, so we've been lounging around the house for awhile. We might walk to the river if the weather gets better. Ohh.. for dinner tonight Marina wants to make chicken pot pie. That's a funny story actually. I made homemade chicken pot pie a few weeks back and everyone is in love with it. They've never eaten it before, so Mari wants to use the same recipe and make it for her family tonight for dinner. She's really excited, and so am I. Then, she can pass on the chicken pot pie legacy to fellow Argentines :)