We decided that we needed to visit the Notary Public to finalise a wedding date and make sure my paperwork was in order. We went to the closest one just 50 metres away from the apartment. They validated all the paperwork except the actual translation which apparently required to be done by an official translator provided by the ministry of foreign affairs. They were not able to provide a wedding date neither. After we left a bit deflated and worried to be honest that other notaries would give us the same inconveniences, we headed off instead to buy an engagement ring for my gatita.
Ideally I should have gone to buy the ring by myself but as circumstances stand it seemed logical to head off with her to at least find a ring that we both liked (and I didn´t know her finger size neither). For obvious reasons too I did´t want to get conned as an ignorant foreigner. I now know her finger size is 8.
If we were deflated after the notary visit we felt like going home after our engagement ring adventure as we visited at least 8 jewellers and none had adequate rings some were just too expensive and the cheap ones were circon (zircon) and appeared to be total knock offs. We decided to call it off and went back to the apartment.
To cheer ourselves up, I decided to be adventurous and prepared the blue cheese sauce. As I have never done it I decided to use a small piece of the cheese as a sampler and it went really well so I prepared the whole sauce. Cut some chips and prepared the steaks.
I pulled it off and my gatita gave me a 10 out of 10. The steak was exceptional as I mentioned it would be in a previous blog entry, no fat at all, cut really well with normal kitchen knives and at the cost of £2.20 for ½ a kilo of meat it was a cheap and good meal. At least that cheered us up a little.
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