6-19-11
I woke up to a beautiful, sunshine and blue sky morning. It hasn’t really been sunny much, so I think it was because it was my birthday :-) that the weather was nice. For breakfast, we ate fried eggs over rice. In the morning, some of us went to a market to buy cheap things on the beach and that was successful! Our host mom asked what we wanted for lunch, so I requested Llapingachos. These are basically like mashed potatoes with some kind of spices in them, and fried and are my favorite. After lunch, three of us girls relaxed in the hammocks until Rocio came and asked us if we wanted our nails done. She did a beautiful job and we all felt very special. Afterward, we took a walk on the beach and saw a very beautiful sunset, which is so difficult to capture on camera. It was great to be at the beach on my birthday though! We ate my birthday cake after dinner, and I’m so impressed by Rocio and everything she can make from scratch—she is a very talented woman. The cake was vanilla with strawberry frosting and even had birthday wishes and my name written on it! Except, it was written in English and said “Jipi Birday Jolly”, which made us laugh. At night, we all went out to the bars on the beach in Atacames (a bigger town close to Tonsupa) to dance: salsa and meringue. It was a good birthday :-)
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| Birthday lunch: rice, sausages, Llapingachos, salad, Mora juice :-) |
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| Syntoya and Mabel relaxing in the hammocks. |
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| Beautiful artwork on my toes |
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| Yuki, me, Rosita and Mabel at the beach. |
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| My 22nd Birthday |
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| Some of us at a bar on the beach! |
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| Me, Mabel, Yuki and Rosita |
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