Saturday, July 24, 2010

This is a link to our video from our trip to Guatemala. The quality isn't that great due to the fact that the size needed to be smaller in order to upload.

Greetings from San Salvador! We said goodbye to Thelma and Jose after an awesome pancake breakfast and have safely and successfully made it to our hotel. Yesterday was very eventful. We started off by visiting a Christian school and meeting new friends. Olivia and I both shared our testimonies with the students and the team showed them fun new drills. We all got the chance to visit the mall in Guatemala City. Laura Lee was brave enough to try the Spanish dessert called Churros. They turned out to be very delicious! Then we made our way over to the Antigua markets to do some shopping. Laura Lee, Evans, and Clint all bought machetes...imagine that! Laurel purchased about seven headbands while Ann Walton and Emily bought a few themselves. Maison and Sidney turned out to be very good hagglers. While walking back to our van, we were swarmed by street vendors. Adam was about to purchase one item from them when we discovered that it was illegal to do so. The street vendors finally understood the word ''no!'' Later that night, we finished our last basketball game in Guatemala. We came out undefeated for the Guatemalan portion of the trip! booyah! After the game, Jaimie and Luis, the Guatemalan preacher that worked with us, drove us to a nice Mexican restaurant. Ordering was quite an adventure even with Jaimie's help. Laurel ended up with fried bananas and queso that was very different from our American queso. After dinner we said our goodbyes to Luis. We headed back to the guest house to pack up and get prepared for the drive with ''Crazy Eddie'' to San Salvador.

Elizabeth