"Family Resturante"

On Saturday after lunch, and a nice nap, Norma, Lucia and I were supposed to go shopping at 5. I got up around 4:30 to get ready and Lucia was in the hallway doing her hair. She told me she forgot about a mate date she had with her friends and was headed to the park instead. She said we would go shopping afterwards around 7 ish. It was fine with me! I worked on some homework then around 6 Norma and I went to the Resturant/ Bar that their Aunt owns! Noel works there on Saturdays and it wasnt too far away!

We sat down and had some café con leche with some media lunas! It was delicious!! I had to laugh because I could tell Norma was a bit upset at something when we left the house, but she put on a smile for me. Later at the restaurant I figured out she was upset because of Lucia! HAHA!! She was upset because as she said Lucia is in 20 different places at the same time! She is always going going going, and has tons of plans, which like today mess up other plans! I just had to laugh because ... it kinda reminded me of home and our mothers. :) It was good.



Before we ate our Media Lunas and Café, Norma and Noel told me ALL about the RESTURANTE! It was such a cool place and had a lot of history! I feel like most places here are very unique and have a lot of history. Its different from our Fast Food Franchizes and "Big Name" Resturants (I know there is a word of "Big Name", but I cant think of it... see my English is digressing!)....

Now I can't remember the name of the resturant, but I took a ton of Pictures and I'll explain through them!! :).....



Here is a picture looking into the resturant from the door way! The bar is on the right and there is seating long the whole wall and then more above the bar! Lots of resturants have balcony seating.


FERNET!! Its the drink of the Argentines! Its just like whiskey and they drink it with coca, or coke. There was a HUGE HUGE bottle on the bar, so I had to take a picture of course :)


Noel then said I needed a real life comparison so she jumped in the picture :) I feel like this was a typical "Do family occurrence" of mine. They are just soo friendly and love joking around and having little laughs here and there :)


This telephone booth is really antique! Norma told me just last month, or VERY recently, a scene from a movie was made using this EXACT Booth!! She said they were there ALL day! I thought it was pretty cool.


To the right of the telephone booth, and just as we walked in, there was this HUGE wall with all sorts of antique bottles! I know my mom would have LOVED IT!! Many of the bottles are antique "soda" bottles. Soda is just carbonated water and the bottles, now and back then, have this "jazzy" spout on them!


To the right of the Telephone Booth there was another "back" room and just before the room on the wall was this! The sign in the background used to be the name of a street in this Barrio, or neighborhood. The sign says "Pinaicha," but our Barrio is named "Barrio Pichinca" which, from what i can gather, came from this street name. The bottles infront of the sign are old water bottles.... notice that they are blue Paula! :)



Finally, there is a doctor in the neighborhood who is ALSO a painter! He likes to paint typical Argentine / Rosarioan things such as tango dancers, women, and famous ppl... So that is what the pictures above are from :)