Day 28: Ruth and I both need our daily cup of coffee to get us going. Yup, we're addicts. I LOVE waking up with a strong cup of coffee (or two or three). The fact that we have really great coffee grown right here in Nicaragua makes it even better! No Foldgers here. We were able to spend the last two nights at a hotel/farm/coffee plantation called Selva Negra. We had fun hiking through the cloud forest and through the coffee bushes. . .from bean to mug. . .awesome!
Day 29: This was actually year 2 of spending part of Thanksgiving break in Selva Negra with our friends the Starkenburgs. We stayed in the same house as last year, ate some of the same yummy food, drank the same hot chocolate, played some familiar games, and enjoyed the same frigid mountain air! Our kids loved hanging our with their "Nicaraguan cousins," even though 6/7 kids were sick at some point (including Henry, our latest Chikingunya victim). We are thankful for traditions today! We don't have a lot of traditions yet, having only been here for 2.5 years, but we are certainly finding how special and important traditions are for our family and hope to create more and more each year. Next year in November, Selva Negra here we come!
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| Chikingunya:( It hurts. |
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| Fever! And "purple berries!" She doesn't know the word for grapes as we eat them so infrequently:) |
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