The sun is shining

('Pablo' and Jose working on getting Pablos trick kite in the air a few evenings ago)

Well the tropical storm has moved on and we are back to sunny and hot.

Today the city is recovering from the Carnival festivities yesterday. There are people out with rakes (yes really) raking the trash in the streets and everywhere!  It will be a long hard job for them, it's amazing the amount of trash everywhere!

The restaurants must have done very good business last night because they were all closed today.  Which means they were either out of food to serve or they were sleeping off the nights activities.  

We went from one place to another after worship only to find them all closed!

We finally found one place with the owner and some family members there. They didn't have any food on their menu available but said they'd be willing to prepare us a typical b'fast plate and promised it would be delicious.  Then she came out to take our drink orders

 "Juices or Cafe con leche" she offered.  "What type of Juice?"  we asked  

 She had to go check what might be left.  

Then came back and said "sorry we are actually all out of juice...only coffee and sodas"  

No problem...."what type of sodas?  Do you have banana?" the kids wanted to know.

"sorry I don't actually know what we have left, let me go see...."

"sorry.  We only have Coca Cola left...no other types" 

We just laughed with her and ordered 4 Cokes ('Fonso was with us) and 1 Coffee. 

But they were right....the food was DELICIOUS.

First they brought us some little 'pan de coco' rolls (coconut bread....really it's just like a dinner roll, but made with coconut milk so there is a hint of sweetness to it) with some peanut butter and some jelly in little bowls along with some pats of butter.  Even peanut butter and jelly can be made attractive on a plate with pretty little bowls!

On the menu for our thrown together meal:

grilled beef kabobs

guacamole (no doubt freshly made right then and OH so yummy!)

cheese slices (the cheese hmmm hard to explain,but often a side on a typical platter)

scrambled eggs

mantequilla (again sorry can't explain...but sooo good to dip your beef and tortillas in!)

freshly made tortillas

tomatoes

It was PERFECT!!  

Delicious and I didn't have to cook!!

We sat up high overlooking the bay and felt the breeze blowing off the ocean and enjoyed seeing the sun glistening on the water!!   It was a great way to spend some time together after worship.  Just relaxing and overlooking the wonder of God's creations!!  

(my wonderful husband doing one of his favorite things.....

he LOVES the beach and kites and the combination of the two especially!)