Wednesday, August 13, 2008

How did our adventure turn out?

Raise your hand. Keep your hand raised if you have ever gone to a new-age breathing / meditation type session. OK, now keep your hand raised if you arrived at that session in the back seat of a police car. None of your hands should be up, unless you are me in the future or Erika. Now slap yourself in the face for not knowing where this was going.

The person who we were visiting gave us not-perfectly-clear directions on how to get there, which would have been fine except that a cab driver, about a dozen passers-by, and a gas station attendant had never heard of that street before in their lives and had no idea where it was. Another gas station attendant gave us very confident directions to nowhere. As we were wandering around, some guy stopped to help us, and flagged down a cop car to ask directions. They then drove us where we needed to go, but we had to sit in the back, like common criminals, making small talk with the cops, like common cops´acquaintances. The session was every bit as weird as we had hoped, but the funny details are mainly noises that will not come through in simple text.

We did other stuff today too. Saw a park, I guess. It was aiite.

People who know what Unicoum is (though I don´t think they´re reading this blog) (for everyone else, it´s a very "strong" Hungarian liquor): I have found the superior South American equivalent to Unicoum. It is better in that it is sweet at first and spicy as it goes down, as opposed to being terrible at first and then terrible until you eat like two meals afterwards. We will drink it upon my return.

That´s all... more wine tasting tomorrow.