In comparison to the last few days, day four of my trip was relatively quiet. After another solid sleep in the biggest double bed in which I had ever laid my head, we headed to the local park with Jon, Adrianna, Natalie and Allison. For a local park I was very impressed- several good sized playgrounds and a large lake in the middle.
From there we went to the local supermarket (selection galore) to pick up the meat for the BBQ. After adding to the overall culinary experience with my apple, cranberry, and mixed leaf salad, I sat down with a few beers to talk to the various family members who had arrived. We were joined by Adrianna's mum and dad, Amelia and Eduardo, her brother, Eddie, her niece, Stephanie, and Steph's friend Alyssa Ray. I got along very well with the family although since a several of them only spoke Spanish (and my Spanish is disgraceful at best) I often had to nod and smile politely without the slightest clue with what was being discussed. I had great fun talking to Stephanie and Alyssa Ray, my contemporaries, who seemed to have matched up well to my ideas of the American Teenager (most of the conversation was about Prom!) I had even more fun watching Stephanie go door to door in the neighbourhood trying to convince people to repaint their houses. I was suitably impressed however when this cold-calling technique managed to result in eight leads in only one hour of attempts.
The evening involved a little more business as I managed to find and book my next stage of the journey- the bus journey to Washington DC. After the days of pampering I had received, I was fairly reluctant at the idea of leaving although I guess I needed to start roughing it sometime soon.
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