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Learning the language remains a challenge. Especially for the shorter of us (not the shortest - Josie understands I want to pet you in any language!). Today Amy was in the grocery store. She dutifully looked up how to say "ham, half kilo, sliced thin," before approaching the deli. The lady nodded, and then trundled off to the back. She was gone A Long Time. And came back with.... a thin package of.... prosciutto? Clearly not standard deli ham, in any event. She sliced that open and started peeling it, sheet by sheet out of the package.
So here's where you get to make a choice. Do you embrace the embarrassment and say, "não, desculpe," and try again? Or do you stand frozen, uncertain, manage to squeak out "pequeño," to get her to stop pulling ham out of the package, meekly take it and figure out what to do with it later? I'll let you guess which option the shorter of us chose.
In other news, Scott ordered half a kilo of ham from the deli today. It went fine 😄.
That's all for now.
Love from Lisbon!
Scott & Amy
P.S. Some of you have asked about the heat and wildfires in Europe generally and Portugal in particular. Our experience has been a week of pretty hot weather that wasn't as bad as St. Louis hot. It's not as humid and it cools down more rapidly after the sun sets here. It STL, we'd walk outside at 21h00 into a wall of water that just sucked the life out of you. Here, we were able to open the apartment windows by 17h30 or so most nights. It has cooled down considerably the last couple of days - back to being beautiful.
P.P.S. Don't forget: our next update will have a new look and feel and come from a different address ...