How do you lose a mall?

Ok, so the title was Emily's idea. But I think it accurately describes our day today. 

First though, I am going to talk about yesterday. After school I came home and had lunch. Then I went on the computer and procrastinated homework. I had not had a very good day at school so I just read my book and checked email and stuff. Gabi showed up around 3:30 and we headed over to Emily's house for a sleepover. When we got to Emily's house we went to the grocery store and bought ingredients for sugar cookies, homemade oreos, and breakfast the next morning. It was a little expensive, but it was a little pre-halloween celebration. (We always find something to celebrate.) We baked like all night. Well, for 2 hours. And although we had not eaten very much of the dough (eggs here are left out of the fridge, and so we were pretty sure that eating dough with raw egg in it would be even more dangerous here than in the states), we still we pretty full after only a couple of cookies. I was convinced that we had absorbed the sugar through breathing or something. But anyway....Gabi and Emily were convinced they were going to stay up all night. So after a rather thorough cleaning of the kitchen we moved out to the living room, armed with pillows, blankets, and an extra mattress. We watched Dance with Me, (this was the only full movie I watched), Made of Honor (I saw the first half an hour or so before falling asleep), and Premonition (which i didn't see hardly any of, except for I woke up at around 3am and watched the last half hour without glasses so I really only saw the fire in the explosion and heard the actors talking). Then this morning we made an American breakfast for ourselves and Emily's host mom. Scrambled eggs, bacon, french toast and orange juice. 

Gabi had to meet some friends at El Jardin mall and so we walked over there from Emily's house. However, we got a little lost. Ok, so like really lost. We sort of forgot the way to the mall.  We found it eventually and Emily kept saying "How do you lose a MALL?" I didn't wear my best walking shoes so my feet hurt by the time we got to the mall. But, I love El Jardin mall. It was so cool. It turned out that Gabi didn't have to meet her group, so we got to hang out at the mall together. We walked around the 2nd floor and the food court, but it was really great. Emily wanted to buy some clothes so she ended up buying 2 skirts and a shirt for about $50 total. Things were still pretty cheep there. (Of course, we are also just really good bargain hunters.) Then we went back to Emily's house and watched another movie. This one was called If Only. It was really sweet and a little depressing, but it was good. Then Gabi and I had to go home because we both had lots of homework to do this weekend. So I have been working on homework for the past 2 hours. I did about half of the stuff that really needs to get done this weekend, and then I think tomorrow I will finish that stuff and attempt some of the stuff that I don't really have to do because I can use to Gringo excuse to get out of it. 

Tomorrow I am headed to church and youth group. So that should be fun. 2 days until our Mindo trip. (And yes, I am counting.) 

I have just added pictures of our baking experience to this....

Hasta Luego, 

Zoe