Sept 3 Monday Beginning of Last Week in Xela
The day started as usual, nothing special about it. I spent the morning working with Patty until mid-morning when we left on a short field trip to the Hyper Piaz. Patty wanted to check out stationary bikes because her father agreed to pay for one so she can get some exercise. Diabetes runs in her family and she has an uncle that is on his last leg from it.
On Friday we had spent time at the Ropa Tipica museum. It was so very interesting and I learned a lot about the garments the Mayans wear every day. If I had a better understanding of Spanish I would have learned a lot more. After we finished the museum we went to Mount Blanc and smaller shopping mall. Patty was holding my feet to the fire over the missed class hour. We got a cup chocolate-con-leche and had a Spanish lesson at the same time. This week we are still adding 30 minutes to lesson time to complete the make-up.
Monday afternoon was free. Ha! Ha! We set out on foot to buy bus tickets for our last week in Guatemala. We were successful in getting a ticket to Guatemala City right after class on Friday which means we will eat an early lunch. We will purchase tickets to Flores in GUA city. Hurricane Felix has played fast and loose with our travel plans. Susan has played the roll of 'weather person' sending us text messages about the movement of the storm. The little cell phone works really well. We were concerned that Felix would go in around Peten near the Tikal ruins which is where we were going. It fizzled out and became a lot of rain for us which could cause flooding in Xela.
I had a screw fall out of my glasses at the finca. We wrapped up the new glasses with the screw and I pulled out my older back up glasses to get through until today. We went to Mount Blanc to get it repair.
