This weekend I went to Riobamba with my familia afitriona :D. It's a 3 hour drive from Quito, but I read the book that Allysa gave me for Christmas, so it flew by. When we go to my mom's sister's house I literally thought we were at a hotel. The house has 4 stories with 7 huge bedrooms all with their own full bathrooms. Everything is brand new and they have a full soccer field in the back yard and a gym in the basement. It was quite overwhelming lol. But my mom's siblings and nephews/nieces are all so sweet and were very kind to me.
That night we got cafe, tamales, sanduches, bolones de verde, and these fried yuca things filled with queso. They were pretty good, and the restaurant was so popular for being a cheap little sanduches shoppe. This old man was playing a guitar and the harmonica in the entry and parades were going down the street all night with people dressed as gorillas, satan, wolves, etc dancing down the streets. It felt like Halloween in January.
Afterwards we went back to the house and the women got tiny shot glasses of Pina Colada that we sipped on, and the men got whiskey. My mom and I hated it because it was warm hahaha. She's a woman after my own heart. We went upstairs and listend to some music together as a family, then I went to bed at 10 because I get so exhausted after meeting new people and only speaking Spanish for long periods of time has been mentally draining (in a good way). I slept until noon and woke up to my host cousin Sebastian knocking on the door (I slept in his room that night), and I was so embarrassed because my hair was a hot mess lmao. After I got dressed and brushed my teeth I went downstairs and Sebastian talked with me about sports and school for a while.
For lunch we all went to a really nice restaurant and everyone got chicken except my mom, who got Cuy (GUINEA PIG!). Yes, it still had its head and feet connected and yes, it still had its ears, teeth, and eyes in said head. I tried a bite of it (of course my mom gave me its little left arm to chew off of), and it honestly was not disgusting. It just had an unpleasant rubbery texture, which I did not enjoy. I had chicken, potatoes, a little salad, a coke, and a little thing of pineapple jello with homemade whipped cream. It was an odd combination, but whatevs lol. After lunch I got a few family photos and it was awesome, then Vanessa and I made the 3 hour journey back home.
It was an amazing weekend and I can't wait for even more memories with my familia afitirona :D.
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