Saturday's With Felix

Our first short story "Saturday's with Felix." This Saturday we started out by running errands with Felix. First to the Huembes Market to Flower Central where Felix goes to pick up flowers for his apartment every week.

This is the entrance to the store. On the left are all the boxes that the flowers are shipped in.
 Each box has the same kind of flower in it.

 This was a sweet experience. There is the "Flower Guy" Kevin that is quite the charmer he calls you to let you know what flowers he has in this week and that you better hurry up and stop by before they are all gone. I wish I would of gotten a photo of him because he was cute and had slicked hair like Elvis. I think that style might be making a come back. Well, he was a big flirt  with Jeanne and I and we weren't even buying flowers. Anyhow, Felix was saying that he has all these prestigious women clients that he calls to tell them what flowers are in. It's like a full service flower shop. You go into the cooler to pick out your flowers, then they clean the stems for you, you pay them and tip them, and then they take the flowers out to your car for you. Now that's what I am talking about.

This is the cooler, usually it's completely packed and you can't even walk in

Isn't cool how they package the roses...

Exotic Flowers

I loved how they packaged everything!

Lets see...from here we went and picked up our Filete and veggie rolls for dinner later and took them to Felix's house. We also placed the flowers in their vases and then headed back out for some lunch.

Our Lunch Spot

We have found a favorite breakfast/lunch place here in Managua. It's called Zacate Limon (lemon grass) everything is so delicious here. They have great strawberry smoothies, yummy pancakes, and amazing salads. I had the California Salad which has Chicken, granny smith apples, candied walnuts and avocado. It was so good! They are also known for there little cupcakes. Cullen and I had one each and Felix had Chocolate cake.

From lunch we headed back to Felix's Apartment where we relaxed and had his famous Sangria, smoked cigars (not the ladies of course), watched the sunset, and of course some very stimulating conversations.

Placencia Reserva Organica Cigar- Esteli, North of Managua

 

Movie Time

One might think that we have done more than enough for one day, but you are wrong. After relaxing at the apartment, we decide to go rent/buy a movie. I am sure everyone is familiar with renting a movie in the States. You go to the rental store and wander around till you find a movie you want. Well, here in Nicaragua. You drive up to this little Movie Shack (Pictured Below) You tell them what kind of movie you would like to buy and they bring a handful or movies out to your car for you to skim through and pick the ones your want. We picked 6 movies for $1 each. Not a bad deal. 

The inside of the movie store. It wasn't really as shady as the picture looks.

Choosing the right movie

 Filete Anyone??

Now it's time for dinner. Felix has been talking about this meal all week so I was very excited to try it. Filete is just a fillet of meat that they cook for a long time and it has a pepper rub on the outside of it. It comes with this delicious cilantro dip that is very refreshing. Along with the filete we had tons of vegetables and veggie rolls with soy sauce. Notice in the pictures the flowers on the table are from our adventures earlier that day.

Flowers from Kevin!

Veggie rolls with soy sauce

Filete with cilantro sauce

Fresh veggies, I know they look like a lot but they were all gone in about 20 minutes.

 ~Buenas Noches~