We're closing out our third month away from home and it's been a blast. Our Spanish comprehension is really picking up, but we're still struggling at forming our own thoughts without dumbing them down to the conversation skills of a 3 year old. As you can imagine, our days are filled with the learning experiences that come along with spouting off an embarrassing phrase.  For example, while signing up for the FILA 10K, Elizabeth attempted to explain that we don't have a DNI number (all residents have one and they're similar to a SSN). She intended to say "Soy una extranjera" (I'm a foreigner) but "Soy extraño" came out instead ("I'm strange" or more colloquially as "I'm gay").  Needless to say, this illicited a big smile from the person signing us up and it was fully understood that we were indeed foreigners.  We followed this little gem up with our responses to what size shirt we wanted.  "Largo" and "medio" were our responses.  I couldn't hold back my smile as I realized that I'd just asked for a "long" shirt and Elizabeth had asked for a "half" shirt.  Live and learn.

To motivate ourselves to be more active, we have kept a log of all of our daily walks/runs since we left OKC.  This past month, we've logged 147 miles between a formal 5K, two 5K hash runs, our daily walks and occasional evening runs.  It's easy to rack up the miles when twice a week we're walking 1.25 miles each way to our Spanish tutor.  We're hoping with some longer runs over the next 2 weeks we'll be ready to run the FILA 10K on April 17th.



Although we fill more in shape, we really have no idea how much weight we may or may not of lost since we don't own a bathroom scale.  We haven't found a public scale to use on a regular basis, so   instead we made a trip to a supermarket a few miles away that sales bathroom scales. Luckily they're in a section of the store where we can quickly pull one off the shelf and jump on.  It's been since the beginning of March since we last stopped by to "borrow" their scale.  At that time, I'd lost around 8 pounds and Elizabeth had lost 5.  So we're really excited/dreading our next trip to our favorite scale.