Blog Number 142

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Saturday was Tour de Cow II...

My teammate from Michigan and I were invited to a Bar-B-Que, Argentinian-style at the team leader's house.  He came a picked us up at the hotel and took the long way (through the mountains) to his house.  It was a rainy day but it was still beautiful.  He had been talking about this day most of the week but then on the way to his house he admitted that he was really bad at preparing bar-b-que.  So his friend was going to prepare the bar-b-que for us.  We arrived at his house and just hung around for about an hour and got the full house tour.  Also in attendance was our host's wife and 1 year old son (his birthday is today) and the bar-b-que expert, his wife and 11 year old son.  His friend spoke some English and he was quite a character.

My co-worker had read my blog about the original Tour de Cow so he knew what to expect.  This is a little unfair I think as he knew what he was eating at all times whereas I did not when I was at my first one.  Oh well, a good time was had by all.  Besides tons of meat from all parts of the cow, also served was a salad, bowls full of (what appeared to be) tomatoes and eggs, bread, and French fries (with scrambled eggs on them of course) and wine.  Once again I had to take everyone's word for it that the wine was good as I do not have a sophisticated enough palate for wine tasting.  Anyway, we had a great time and the host's 1 year old son warmed up to us and started doing his various array of cute things by the end of the meal.

This morning I am heading up to the co-worker's room for breakfast.  The maid has failed to leave me the form to fill out for breakfast to be delivered to your room so he is ordering enough for 2 people.  After that 2 of my trainees are coming to pick us up to go shopping.  I have exactly in mind what I want to get my wife and kids for presents for when I arrive home.  For some reason, even though they are really missing me, I think I need to have some sort of memento of my visit to give to them.  Wish me luck in finding the perfect gift.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon