Day of Relaxing & Noche Blanca

Started out the day by checking out a watch store (relojeria) to see if I could get a new battery for my watch I bought in France. He checked the battery and it was still really good and put it back in and Whaaaa-la it works. I think he's a miracle worker... b/c it certainly was not working before. This is my watch... later in the afternoon :-D

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Then I headed to the park to meet some of the girls I was going to hang out with for the day. I was super early b/c the stop at the watch dude's place did not take long. So I found a nice bench in the park they were meeting me at. I should've looked around before I sat because there were about two dozen old men looking at me -- gawking at the token blond girl in the area. A group of them over yonder started singing and one got up and danced by himself.

Then.... A man walks by then turns around and comes back to sit by me. His name is Pablo. He really wanted to take me somewhere with him. First it was coffee... then he wanted go dancing... then he wanted me to meet his friends. Oh ... I should explain this Pablo character. He is probably in his late 70's, has only 4 bottom teeth, has nice looking combover and over all just an old man. After about 10 minutes of him wanting me to go places w/ him I said I saw my friends. Poor Pablo.... He should go for girls his own age ;-P

Once my gal pals came to my rescue we headed to Parque de Jesuitas. Its a beautiful park located on the Southeast side of town. There we hung out from about noon to six-ish. So much to do there -- zip line, frisbee, cards, listen to guitar etc. Pretty fun!!! Here's Robert playing bits and pieces of songs he knows.

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Later on we went to La Noche Blanca. Its a huge community festival that included performances, concerts, dances, tours and all sorts of stuff in between. On our way we met these dudes wearing sombreros. I asked why .. thinking they may work at a restaurant or something but he responding --to shade him from the sun! HA. What a jokester. They were celebrating the kid in the obscene costume's birthday.

We watched a bunch of different dance groups. I really wanted to get up there with them! There were belly dancers, hip hoppers, break dancers, flamenco girls. So awesome! After that we sat down for some icecream and Cokes :-D I had "ron con pasas" flavored icecream (rum & raisins). Reminded me of those butter rum flavored life savors!! So good!!! Here's the girls at the Plaza Mayor.

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