GUATEMALA: Semana Santa and Beyond
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Friday:
Walked as usual between 3-8 miles. Stumbled accidentally across the Colibri (hummingbird) store and fell in love with the colors and quality of their finely woven textiles, but not their prices. We returned also to the Jade Shop for the black jade necklace I had seen earlier, but it was gone.
Met Terri and Jeff, the couple I mentioned earlier, for lunch. My husband had met Terri years ago and we knew her parents. They picked us up at the park and took us up the hill to the lovely area from Santo Tomas for lunch. Terri and Jeff are missionaries there who work towards helping educate and improve living conditions for poor Guatemalans and do it beautifully as they also bring the message of hope through Jesus to them. They with their two teenage daughters have lived in Antigua for years. Their second daughter, adopted from Guatemala, just received her US citizenship. We talked for over two hours. Terri told me that she and her mother also loved the store Colibri and didn’t know how expensive it had become. She encouraged me to have no regrets, so you can see where this is going. She also told me where to buy very cheap jade!
So we returned to Colibri and I bought the lovely finely woven placemats and napkins and cords and felt some relief when I read their story that the money went directly to the widows (whose husbands were killed during that terrible time) who made these lovely items. While in the store, I also encouraged a hesitating woman into buying the bedspread she so badly wanted. She was there for cancer treatment.
We walked in the briefest of sprinkles of rain. Went inside at the smaller of the Calle Reals and had the Caldo soup. So yummy! So the soup is like this: It has chicken, rice, and goodies to sprinkle on it: tiny chopped onions, cilantro, oregano, hot pepper, lime wedges, hot sauce, and it has big chunks of avocado in it! Served with hot hot small corn tortillas. The huge drops of rain subsided for our walk back.
We talked to Marco again and he offered to have a box breakfast for us when we were to leave at 4 AM the next morning.
We showered and packed and hoped we could take it all onboard.
Surprise, we could!
Walked as usual between 3-8 miles. Stumbled accidentally across the Colibri (hummingbird) store and fell in love with the colors and quality of their finely woven textiles, but not their prices. We returned also to the Jade Shop for the black jade necklace I had seen earlier, but it was gone.
Met Terri and Jeff, the couple I mentioned earlier, for lunch. My husband had met Terri years ago and we knew her parents. They picked us up at the park and took us up the hill to the lovely area from Santo Tomas for lunch. Terri and Jeff are missionaries there who work towards helping educate and improve living conditions for poor Guatemalans and do it beautifully as they also bring the message of hope through Jesus to them. They with their two teenage daughters have lived in Antigua for years. Their second daughter, adopted from Guatemala, just received her US citizenship. We talked for over two hours. Terri told me that she and her mother also loved the store Colibri and didn’t know how expensive it had become. She encouraged me to have no regrets, so you can see where this is going. She also told me where to buy very cheap jade!
So we returned to Colibri and I bought the lovely finely woven placemats and napkins and cords and felt some relief when I read their story that the money went directly to the widows (whose husbands were killed during that terrible time) who made these lovely items. While in the store, I also encouraged a hesitating woman into buying the bedspread she so badly wanted. She was there for cancer treatment.
We walked in the briefest of sprinkles of rain. Went inside at the smaller of the Calle Reals and had the Caldo soup. So yummy! So the soup is like this: It has chicken, rice, and goodies to sprinkle on it: tiny chopped onions, cilantro, oregano, hot pepper, lime wedges, hot sauce, and it has big chunks of avocado in it! Served with hot hot small corn tortillas. The huge drops of rain subsided for our walk back.
We talked to Marco again and he offered to have a box breakfast for us when we were to leave at 4 AM the next morning.
We showered and packed and hoped we could take it all onboard.
Surprise, we could!
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