Lessons learned Chapter 1 - Groceries

Day One is Spain included a trip to the grocery store for a few quick items.  

Lesson #1 - all of the vocabulary that I have for fruits and vegetables is in desperate need of a makeover.  How is it that Spanish does NOT equal Spanish?  Somehow, it is true.  So one of the first things on my list to do today is to get a small spiral notebook and start language learning all over again.  Back to kindergarten...  At least I'm not starting all over again with everything!  Just need to revamp some vocabulary.

Lesson #2 - the grocery shopping experience is BYOB (Bring Your Own Bags).  If you don't, they charge you.

Lesson #3 - Wow - waaayyy too many choices for olive oil!  We will have to make this a learning point for future conversations with others.

Lesson #4 - LOADS of fish and seafood things in the meat dept, all of which have names we are unfamiliar with.  Another vocabulary experience.  Several things with tentacles and sucker-things.  Several things that appeared to be shrimp-like.  All the fish have huge teeth (I think I'm staying out of the ocean here).  Finally found a familiar sight - trout - and went with the familiar for dinner. Day One is not the day to gamble on dinner... too sleep deprived, too brain dead, too overwhelmed to chance a bad dinner.

Lesson #5 - even cooking dinner is a new experience!  Sarah looked at the stovetop and said "What is that!?"  Turning it on and figuring out the settings was a whole other story.  

We finally ate dinner at 9:30 p.m.  Sarah almost fell asleep in her plate.  We have groceries to last another couple of days. We are now aware of a few learning points we need to work on.  This is going to be  a new adventure, for sure!