It's a Wrap!

Here is a very large hodge podge of our last week in El Salvador:

We saw Ale at a match against a competing team.

We went to the beach again, and had fun finding seashells during the low tide!

Ale had more practice to go to:

We celebrated Gaby's 10th birthday!

Bowling at Galaxy Bowling during a World Cup game!

We went to a Mexican restaurant to watch Columbia vs. Brazil, and celebrated Gaby's big day again! :)

Natalia shows off her proud purchase with her allowance money: a shell necklace!

Cousins rough house again!

We visit the mall to admire the fountain, take a ride in the train, and eat at MD again, where there is beautiful air conditioning as the kids play to their heart's content!

Cousin Love!

We visit the local zoo!!

Celebrate Edwin's big 40 with family, friends, great food!

Visit Tin Marin for another day of exploring!

Visit with the Barillas family, whom we were so excited to see again!!

Take family pictures before the final good-bye.

Edwin took a shot of Natalia at our layover in Houston. She is admiring her use of the chopsticks. ;)

Spoiled

 We got to go to the beach again yesterday, this time to La Libertad, which has darker sand than the previous beach we visited. I should have taken a picture of the whole fish Tory ate at lunchtime.  We bought Pollo Campero for the girls to eat, and we went to a little restaurant by the side of the road, that sold fresh fish. You could choose to get a $3, $5, or $8 fish, depending on how big you wanted it to be. It also came with rice, salad, and toasted tortilla strips.  After we ate, we took three plates of $3 fish to go, and went back to the beach house.  Edwin's sister, Claudia, who was watching the kids as they played in the pool now had her chance to eat lunch.  She settled down to eat her delicious fish, when Tory got a good look at it, and decided she wanted to try it.  Well, Claudia had to content herself with some Pollo Campero, because Tory wolfed that fish down eagerly.

Lounging around.... such a hard life!

Claudia called this pool the "pila".  When we got there, I chuckled to myself when I saw it.  The kids played in there ALL DAY.  They had to be dragged out to go play in the waves for a bit, then they jumped back in.

We saw a few stray dogs while we were there that were so pathetic looking, we fed them our chicken bones.  They were very docile and sweet, looking at you with calm, hungry eyes.  I would have brought one home with me if I still lived here (after I doused them with flea shampoo, of course). 

Can you see the chickens roosting in the top branches of the tree? :)

Today we hung out most of the day at the house, watching more World Cup matches, as I read and the girls played.  In the evening, we were able to eat pupusas again! 

Tory found a snail! 

I am SO satisfying my mango cravings! These all came from the tree in their yard!