December 21, 2012
We are waiting underneath a volcano
for the end of the world or maybe it's just time for the Mayans to buy their
new calendar.
Richard came by about noon to see if we wanted to ride into town to
the Feria (farmer's market) with him. We
decided to restock our supply of fresh fruit and vegetables. We quickly made the rounds and purchased what
we needed. I had learned the spanish
word for ripe, so I could explain that I wanted 1 ripe and 2 or 3 items not yet
ripe to enjoy later in the week. The
avocados are so perfect here, I am going to have to see what else I can make
with them besides slices on sandwiches and guacamole. After making our purchases, we stopped at
the "food court" and had a piece of yucca cake (not as good as it
looked) and a cold chocolate shake. We
tried a sample of queque de Feliz (Christmas Cake). It was a spicy cake. Eric liked it and I wasn't too crazy about
it.
We walked to the bus stop and waited
on the bus to take us back up the mountain.
When the bus arrived, we got up and politely waited behind this lady who
looked like she was getting on the bus and then didn't, so the bus took off
without us. Instead of waiting another
hour on the next bus, we flagged a taxi.
He spoke no English and thought my directions to where we wanted to go
didn't seem correct, so he called an American who ran the Grecia Bed and
Breakfast to make sure of our directions.
She knew Richard and told the taxi driver where we needed to go. He gave us her card, so now we have another contact
in Grecia. The driver was very nice and
stopped once to let us admire the view and pointed out the sugar cane and
coffee fields.
Later in the afternoon, we saw Henry
across the way and waived to him. He
invited us over to see how much his chickens had grown.
We took a tour of his hillside
garden. He has spent an incredible
amount of time building up flat planting boxes in terraces all down the side of
the mountain.
He reminded me of dad with his garden - enriching
the soil with compost and trying all kinds of exotic plants. He is growing all kinds of lettuce and
vegetables, fruit trees, berries, pineapples and bananas. He is even raising tilapia in his
"cement pond".
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| pineapples |
He said he will harvest his bananas
soon and will share them with us. Yum, I can't wait.
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