We have Jeyson's parents here for 10 days and have really been enjoying taking them around. On the weekend we hopped over to Guyana and on Sunday we went to a little aquatic park near a mountain. During the week Jeyson has been working so we've been more low key during the days, and having fun together in the evenings.
We popped by the hangar one day
And one evening grilled a fresh fish and last night we went to the central plaza to eat this typical soup, tacaca. It's a really strange soup and you eat it with this long, pointy stick. You use the stick to stab/pick up to eat the shrimp and to eat the green leaves. You drink the soup from this typical bowl that is made out of a gourd. And if all of that weren't interesting enough, the leaves make your mouth/tongue numb! So, it makes conversation around the table pretty fun :)
With Jeyson's parents here, I have even gotten the chance to leave Elijah for a bit to go do a few things I haven't been able to. Like get to this market which is a pretty intense farmer's market. Tons of stands - a whole one of these covered areas just for people selling bananas, another for people selling watermelons, etc.
And there was this guy who was selling fresh coconuts and cell phone credit for prepaid cell phones. What a combo deal :)
Iria made us some typical Ecuadorian soup today for lunch, which they don't have the ingredients for in central Brazil but they do here. It is made using green bananas and it was amazing! Tonight our mission team is coming over for dinner made my Iria. Then, this weekend we're planning to go to Venezuela, though we'll see how that works out since we hear that a group of native Brazilians closed down the road between Brazil and Venezuela so no one can get through :( We'll see!
It's so nice to have family around.
1 comment:
That soup sounds weird!!! The numbing would freak me out. Enjoy the visit!!
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