"Uno de los días más frío del año"

"One of the coldest days of the year"

Yeah, yeah. You have three feet of snow and no electricity or whatever. It's slushing here and the city has shut down. Anabel came home looking like she'd been in the Arctic, squealing about the snow. And I have to say, I don't like it. I can't do anything outside because it's so cold and wet and all I brought was a light abrigo (coat). Furthermore, I can barely even walk outside because the streets are so slick. I've been observing out the window and only three miserable people have been in sight in the last seven minutes. They are super bundled and have umbrellas. I'm glad I'm not going to Cadíz this weekend. When I go next weekend it's supposed to be almost 60! (Right now it's about 40.)

We just finished lunch. I'm not a big fish person but I eat and, for the most part, enjoy everything Anabel makes for me. We had salad with fish and bits of toast with fish and then she brought out a plate of raw tuna and cream cheese. I was about to draw the line, especially when she said it was our dessert.... I asked fearfully if it was fish and she said "What kind of fish looks like that?!" I explained about sushi and raw tuna...and she laughed at me. It was not tuna, it was a delicious mashed-up jammy kind of fruit that doesn't seem to have an English equivalent. And it wasn't cream cheese ("queso de philadelphia," they so amusingly call it), it was sweet cream. Crisis averted. Don't worry, I'll be coming home with a bagful of this mystery fruit.