Thursday's Mission Trip

Hey it's Zoe!

We've been here for four days now and it's been a blast thus far. Today was our cultural day. The day began at 7:30 this morning when we left the hotel to go to a church where we had a feast of a breakfast; veggie soup, rice, TONS of fruit and the most delicious chicken around.... twas delicious. Then we headed out for a city rendezvous where we toured the city fortresses, we got a lot of cool pictures. Then we went to Ester's ( the wife of Alfonzo the minister we've been working with) sister's husband's church for lunch. We had these hamburgers which consisted of a patty, bun, ham, pineapple and lettuce, suprisingly it was really good. I ate it all. Then it was the SHOPPING!!!!!!!!!!! During our stay here I have been spending a lot of time with Ester, she has become my Mexican / mayan mama. I asked her if she would go shopping with me and find me some traditional clothing. It was sooooo much fun, i ended up getting this beautiful dress which i of course got on sale. Instead of paying 850 pesos i paid only 500 Ester was impressed with my haggling skills and the boys were jealous because they didnt know you could haggle in the stores :). Then we went to the Church we've been building the Mance for and had some time with the children. And ohhhh my goodness it was amazing. Oh course i had to make a foul of myself in front of everyone. I was in the small children's group and i was demonstrating duck duck goose and i was fake chasing Lolita (Alfonzo and Ester's youngest daughter) around the circle tripped, fell and broke my flip flop - all the moms were laughing and making fun of me it was soooooooo embarrassing. Being a klutz is a hard knock life. After we were done chilling with the 150 kids in the church we headed to Elizabeth and Luis' house where we've been eating most of our meals and had dinner. Fish. I am madly in love with the food here, it has ceased to amaze me. it was great :)

Zoe