Trash Day --- I had to laugh because nearly missing the trash truck is a mad dash here just like at home. Hortensia was carring a bag in each hand and making a run for the front door. She went one way around the car, which is parked next to the sofa, and I ran around the other way to throw open the door! Don dashed upstairs to collect our bit of trash and had to run down the street to pitch it into the truck! Some things are the same the world over.
After our class time our afternoon activity was to a hot spring a short distance away. It did mean we had to take a 'chicken bus' and when we arrived Juan, our guide and Don's teacher, arranged for transport up the mountain in a small pick up truck. I was given a choice of riding inside the cab of the truck or in the back. I selected the back because we would be able to see more. It was a good thing to get pictures while going up the mountain because the clouds dropped down and turned off the view.
The hot swim was wonderful! We have so little hot water to enjoy that this was pure heaven. The water is heated by volcano but was not as hot as one would expect because of a hydroelectric plant drawing off some of the water (so they said). Juan set outside and did not get into the water so he was freezing. It was just heaven to be able to soak in hot water. We met a young couple from Australia, Derek and Melissa, & gave them space in our truck to go back down the mountain. They were fun to talk do and had only be in GUA for a couple of days and were moving on the next day. Don gave them directions to a good bus for the trip they wanted to take. The trip down the mountain was very cold because my head was still wet. I was glad that I had my ugly hat to put on to help hold in some heat.
We managed to catch Donna Joy on the phone late in the day. We wished her a happy birthday just in case we would not be able to find her on her birthday August 23. She had plans to spend her birthday at Chuck-E-Cheese for lunch with Nic.
