A super great
morning was had by all of us, I had some more cereal with yogurt, it
was great. We had a little bit of downtime after breakfast so I
decided to finish another one of the mixes that I had floating
around. The upload speed here is quite slow though, we are looking at
about 5 hours to upload a 64 MB. file. Getting this mix up might be an
overnight thing.
After that we went
out for some groceries to some local shops and we got a little tour
of one of the operations, I got some great photos of the animals. We
had a great lunch of egg salad sandwiches and then is was siesta
time. I got to talk to my family on the slowest Skype connection
ever, which was good, ,it was nice to hear the goings on back home in
Canada but after that, we headed of to “Loco” Rico's house for
some dinner.
We had a great time
at his house, I got to try some authentic prosciutto that he made
(which was great) accompanied by lost of beer and little empanaditas
which were delicious. We were talking with him about the economic
situation here and he asks us if we want to go pick some peaches, I
was a bit surprised but I decided to tag along. We headed to this
huge lot nearby that had about 100 rows with 20 trees on each row,
each tree full of fruit maturing and rotting on the branch. The
situation is that the price of fruit is so cheap the producer can
only sell a kilo of peaches for about $0.10 so he doesn't hire people
to pick the fruit because he'd be taking a loss just by hiring them.
So he lets people just go on his property and pick peaches for
themselves, we fill up about two cardboard boxes full of them.
We were marveling at
the fact that even in the middle of these economic problems around
here, no one is capitalizing they just seem to be stuck in the old
ways. If fruit is cheap why not make jams, jellies, alcohol something
else. Using a still to produce alcohol is completely legal here in
Argentina so my uncle is thinking about buying one to make some
liquors, he's just surprised that he's the only one trying to to
that.
See all my pictures here!
Today's music video is by "Armando Son Jimenez & Orquestra Sabor" performing "Pa' Mi Gente".
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