If you like Pina Colanda's, and getting caught in the rain....

Remember that old song?  I was thinking about it last night at the cook out at Roberto's and Edith's house.  Edith made us Pina Colanda's last night that would knock your socks off.  You never quite know how they are going to be there, but I love them any which way.  At the baby shower last month, she made 2 batches, one with a regular amount of alcohol in it and one batch with none in it so I got quite the surprise when they were strong last night.  The second batch that Antonio made, seemed to be like a normal one, but who could tell after the first one...hee hee.  Roberto was running the grill, and mexican music was playing.  They have a big dining room table that they keep in the garage and they put that out in the yard with wood dining room chairs when they have a cook out, plus had another white plastic table for the kids. It is strange to be at a big table like that outside, but is much more comfortable than sitting at a picnic table. Their cook outs tend to be different food wise than most peoples.  Lots of different meats, tortilla's to put thin steak in, a bunch of different type chips and guacololie looking stuff that was very hot.  I didn't try it but other people were, some could handle it, some not.  Some other chopped tomato and onion thing that you put with the meat on the tortilla's that I have seen before and I asked Diana if that was hot and she said yes, so that stayed off my plate too.  So I had the steak in the tortilla's, a piece of chicken, rice, chips, and Roberto's wonderful cake.  Plus I had a bite of some sort of orange looking sausage that Jenna gave me a piece of.  It was good, kind of spicy, and just having one bite was a perfect amount of it.  I don't think I would have wanted a whole one. The cake was to die for very chocolaty, with a fudge sauce on top and a coffee flavor to it.  Yummy.  I think I like that one the best of all the different one's I have tried.  I had fun playing with a cute little 2 year old girl.  When she first came she was telling her dad that they needed to find a snake, trying to get him to play.  I had a clean straw sitting by me, so I pretended it was a snake and she loved that.  She was playing with the straw pretending it was a snake and chasing the little boys around with it all night long and would pop over and give it to me to tease her with it or she would tease me that she was going to get me and of course I would act scared, or silly.  She would just squeal and giggle.  Just proves that you don't have to buy kids a bunch of toys, if you encourage them to use their imagination!  She absolutely loved playing with the straw.  I asked her dad if she spoke spanish and he says that she understands it but doesn't like to speak it.  But she did ask Edith in spanish for a bottle of water, Antonio told me, and then she gave it to little Saul.  He thought that was so cute.  Both of them turned 2 in March.  It was a fun relaxing evening.  I so enjoy cooking out, sitting outside and relaxing.  It is one of those things you don't do when you live alone, so I really enjoy it when I am invited to a cook out.  Antonio is still trying to teach me Spanish, a very hard task for sure....ha ha.  He wants me to learn because of the baby.  They both want their child to be fluent in both.  I can pick up a few words here and there when people talk but have one heck of time trying to say anything.  Yesterday's word that I learned was Bonita.  I am not sure of the spelling, that is how it sounds.  It means pretty.  On Sunday, I learned the word Orchata off the food channel (to try and impress him while he was at work).  It is a rice drink.  He is off today, so who knows how many words he will try on me today.  I told him he has to do it one word at a time!  I am a slow learner....lol  He says you have to learn Mama, for the baby.  I said that the baby won't be talking for a long time yet!  :-D  Have a great day!  Elaine