Friday, March 18, 2011

Getting lost and finding a treasure!

Today, for the first time, our GPS failed us!! It led us to 2 non existent Costco's, where we were trying to buy fresh veggies and fruit! We ended up touring some....interesting...neighborhoods, but also saw some PINE trees!! (we were excited!)
The 3rd address we tried led us to a Costco, but when we pulled up it was a "Costco buisness centre", which turned out to be weird but cool. There was tons of stuff for resteraunts and stores, but no clothes or books. Some of the items were packaged in larger quantities, and there were things we hadn't seen before in Costco, so it was sort of cool. We ended up buying a box of little bags of gummy bears for our resident gummy bear fan, Tia - for 3.00! We also found some little packaged salads that we haven't eaten yet, but look awesome!
Anyway, the treasure was across the parking lot, because we couldn't buy most of the things we had wanted to buy at Costco, we went into a spanish looking grocery store. The minute we walked in it looked like we had walked into Mexico! It was sooo cool! Mexican music, tons of mexican products, really colorful mexican decorations and a whole huge kitchen where they were making tortillas and taco chips, we watched them making them... then there was an entire salsa bar with about 8 different kinds, as well as a resteraunt with all kinds of mexican food! There were big colorful wooden picnic tables to eat at --- how could we not?? We shared quesadillas, and soft homemade tacos with chicken and rice and refried beans and veggies. I was most intrigued by the salsa bar with the fresh salsa I love so much as well as little lime wedges and tons of other sauces and a giant bowl of hot from the pot corn chips - it turned out the salsa bar was free - they just gave us a couple of plates and said go to it. Well, we think that's what they said - some of them didn't seem to speak much english! The girls were drawn to the colorful ices at the front of the store for 1.25 a cone, but they weren't serving them today - too hard to scoop!! Totally cool, we saved it to our GPS!!! I might have to go back for a terra cotta bean pot...

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