Abby's day!
Today was my birthday, and it was amazing -- although that's skipping ahead to later. We started the day relatively early to start our five-hour bus ride from Antigua to Salamá. Although 5 hours sounds like the recipe for a painful journey, the ride was enjoyable, filled with word games, naps, and 1 ice cream stop.
The drive ended at a restaurant right next to the hotel, where we all had a delicious, traditional Guatemalan meal. The restaurant was complete with a monkey cage, and some of the guys decided it would be smart to smuggle food out from the meal to feed the monkeys. Although the others fed the monkeys food like tortillas, Jack mistakenly decided to feed one poor, defenseless (and likely diseased) monkey a lime. Although the faces the monkey made after taking bites from the lime were increasingly hilarious, the event left us all questioning Jack's decision-making skills.
We then arrived at the Las Lilys hotel, a very nice place with a huge pool. After a couple hours of relaxing and card games, we went to the Habitat Welcome in the hotel lobby. The ceremony was a genuine, inspiring event where we were able to meet the families for whom were building the houses.
After the ceremony, we decided to play a girls versus boys game of charades in order to kills some time and distract Pat from complaint-inducing hunger. The game was filled with many memorable moments, such as Parker's strange faces, Jack's troublesome counting and Wiam's description of "community." The day concluded with a delicious meal at the hotel and a surprise birthday cake for me!
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Today was my birthday, and it was amazing -- although that's skipping ahead to later. We started the day relatively early to start our five-hour bus ride from Antigua to Salamá. Although 5 hours sounds like the recipe for a painful journey, the ride was enjoyable, filled with word games, naps, and 1 ice cream stop.The drive ended at a restaurant right next to the hotel, where we all had a delicious, traditional Guatemalan meal. The restaurant was complete with a monkey cage, and some of the guys decided it would be smart to smuggle food out from the meal to feed the monkeys. Although the others fed the monkeys food like tortillas, Jack mistakenly decided to feed one poor, defenseless (and likely diseased) monkey a lime. Although the faces the monkey made after taking bites from the lime were increasingly hilarious, the event left us all questioning Jack's decision-making skills.
We then arrived at the Las Lilys hotel, a very nice place with a huge pool. After a couple hours of relaxing and card games, we went to the Habitat Welcome in the hotel lobby. The ceremony was a genuine, inspiring event where we were able to meet the families for whom were building the houses.
After the ceremony, we decided to play a girls versus boys game of charades in order to kills some time and distract Pat from complaint-inducing hunger. The game was filled with many memorable moments, such as Parker's strange faces, Jack's troublesome counting and Wiam's description of "community." The day concluded with a delicious meal at the hotel and a surprise birthday cake for me!
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