Day 3 – Mocos

Today, I woke up with a vicious cold and it rained on an off all day; it seemed to be off when we were in the hotel room, and then within 5 minutes of stepping out, it would begin to rain again.  We went to this restaurant that had a men del da posted (this is a good deal in Spain, you can get an entire meal for at least half of what you would pay for it if you ordered each item individually).  There were these two American kids (by kids, I mean college students) who we talked to for a little bit.  When the meal was about half over, the server brought us a bottle of red wine that the kids had bought for us in honor of our Honeymoon.  Very sweet!  We couldn't finish the bottle, but we put a good dent in it and wandered blearily to the internet place.  While Adrian took his turn, I went to a farmacia (pharmacy) to try and get something for all of my congestion.  Unfortunately, I have forgotten what I learned the week we studied illness and symptoms in Spanish Class.  I pointed to my sinuses and sniffed, juicily, at the pharmacist, and she emerged a few minutes later with some medicine.  I looked at her questioningly and she said "para mocos."  When she said that, we both giggled and then she asked how I say it in English, I told her, "boogers."  It's good to know that not only is moco one of the only words regarding illness I can remember in Spanish, but also that I still giggle like an 8 year old when I say booger (or moco, for that matter)!  The medicine box states that it has 'efervecentes' on the packaging, so I'm thinking it's a lot like alka-seltzer, the only problem is that is that I am only allowed to take it once a day.  I don't know of any medicine that can reduce symptoms for 24 hours.  We went back to the room to nap.  We emerged about 9pm and bought an entire chicken from a little corner store - it was delicious.  On our way back to the room, it started raining.  After a few hours of reading and Adrian playing some video games, we went out for a walk, around midnight.  We walked as far as we could - about a mile, until it started raining.  We turned around and came back to the hotel.  I finished book #1 and fell asleep at around 3am. 

 

To do tomorrow - Buy an umbrella.

 

We woke up a few hours ago (Day 4) - and it's been raining heartily the whole time. It looks like it won't care if we are coming or going today the sky is determined to cry on us all day long.