i ran some errands this morning with valeria (oh my god, is this how banal blogging can be....so sorry to add more uneccessary ramblings onto the world wide web)......you can see a shopping mall here with TGIF, which i can now appreciate the concept of (not the restaurant, but the whole m-f work week thing)........then we had breakfast at the sheraton, then....it hailed...........i love rain! that giant roof outside our window makes great rain noise - unfortunately, it would have been nicer if there was an in-house masseur also to go along with the sounds.....

anyway...........i also love that cars drive over these types of pathways....with the grass inbetween. i can't wait to live somewhere with a garden....this high-altitude-all-yr.-round-sun-on-the-equator-thing really grows great plants!........