Wednesday night my roommates and I met up downtown to get an apéritif together … nothing out of the ordinary.
We went to a bar, got a drink, and played a little foosball together.
Then we missed our intended bus back home, so we naturally went to another bar … subsequently missing another bus.
But this bar ended up being pretty fun, and the owner started telling us about her “home-distilled” flavored vodka shots.
She had HUGE bottles filled with vodka and different types of candy used to flavor them … Malabar, caramel, bubble-gum, licorice, etc.
So we tried a couple of the shooters and finally managed to get the bus back to our place.
But the most interesting part of the evening happened as we were walking up to our building … we found a porcupine in the grass!!
Well, in Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, the words my roommates were saying were something along the lines of “porcupina” etc … so I naturally assumed it was a porcupine.
However, I was later informed that it was a hedgehog, and after a bit of thought … yes, I must agree this is probably more accurate.
So I checked out Wikipedia (remember, I work 12 hours a week) and can confirm that it was a hedgehog.
And I also found out that there are no living hedgehog species native to
North America … so that’s kinda cool that I was able to randomly see one here!
We probably shouldn’t have touched the poor little guy, but we’ll blame that on the beer and vodka shots.
Bien sur, I took some pictures!
Wednesday night my roommates and I met up downtown to get an apéritif together … nothing out of the ordinary. We went to a bar, got a drink, and played a little foosball together. Then we missed our intended bus back home, so we naturally went to another bar … subsequently missing another bus. But this bar ended up being pretty fun, and the owner started telling us about her “home-distilled” flavored vodka shots. She had HUGE bottles filled with vodka and different types of candy used to flavor them … Malabar, caramel, bubble-gum, licorice, etc. So we tried a couple of the shooters and finally managed to get the bus back to our place. But the most interesting part of the evening happened as we were walking up to our building … we found a porcupine in the grass!! Well, in Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, the words my roommates were saying were something along the lines of “porcupina” etc … so I naturally assumed it was a porcupine. However, I was later informed that it was a hedgehog, and after a bit of thought … yes, I must agree this is probably more accurate. So I checked out Wikipedia (remember, I work 12 hours a week) and can confirm that it was a hedgehog. And I also found out that there are no living hedgehog species native to 
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