Some Firsts

• FIRST official Spanish lesson last week Tuesday!
• I am taking private lessons with this great Argentinean woman who teaches out of her home.  I go Tuesdays and Thursdays before school, 9:30-11:00am.  She has a great way of making me feel good at Spanish...AMAZING because normally I feel like an idiot!
• FIRST Argentinean Road Race was on Sunday, April 22nd.

kinda dark...but that's us pre-race...gear check in the background

• We ran the Fila Real 10K, and despite the awful struggle we Jake had signing up (just take our money already!) the race of 10,000 runners was surprisingly well organized and a lot of fun!  We finished in around 47 minutes...not horrible for not really having trained...just good to get out after not running a race since the Turkey Trot (good grief!)  The route wound its way through and around the docks of Puerto Madero giving us mostly good sites...and giving us a delicious idea for a post-race meal (we were especially hungry because there was no post-race treat...no bananas, no bagels, nada! you know how I felt about that...)  One big difference from races in the States is that all runners were required to wear their race shirt for the race.  Glad Jake caught that small detail before we left the house!  

holy sandwich....gotta love my FIRST bondiola topped with a fried egg!

• FIRST pizza, faina, and moscato
• the above combo. is supposedly a "must try" while in Argentina...so we gave it a whirl after the International Book Fair on Saturday evening...hit up a place called "Kentucky" on Santa Fe...got 2 slices of mozzarella pizza, 1 slice of faina (chickpea bread) and a glass of moscato (a sort of darker white sweet wine) all for 19 pesos ( ~US$4.30)...great snack!

• FIRST workout at the gym tonight! 
• I joined Jake's gym for the month....my mushy muscles are thanking me after not seeing hand weights and machines for months!  Maybe now we can knock some seconds off that 10K! Plus...I can't wait to discover what the following classes are like: Body Pump, Local Swing, Ritmos Latinos, Aerolocal, Localizada...among others.  Where's yoga and spin?