Rain, rain, go away...

Rain, rain, go away...

It's been raining pretty steady here since the weekend. Saturday night and Sunday morning were the worst, we thought the meeting might even be cancelled because of the weather - that was really just Dana's wishful thinking because he had the public talk! Ha! But the rain let up and the meeting was on for 3pm. After, the Patterson's had us and the Parks' over for supper - escabeche, a hot and sour chicken onion soup with homemade ginger-lime drink and more cake for dessert. Lupé is an excellent cook and she has been spoiling us rotten, sending us home with more food. We had a really enjoyable evening together, but of course it started to rain so we stowed our bikes and the Parks' drove us home.

Monday brought more rain in the morning - I can't imagine how Noah and his family endured 40 days and nights of it! We had two invitations for meals today. The first at lunch with the Vellairs. Another excellent cook - fried snapper fish, coconut rice, fried plantains, split pea soup (yes Mom I ate it and it was good), and iced tea. She gave me some pointers on how to cook with green bananas - boiled to make a potato salad except banana, and grated green banana dumplings cooked in coconut cream called Mathilda's Feet. They have a little boy named Angelo, he is about 1 1/2 years old.  He was cracking us up because he kept calling Dana, Grampa! Not so great for Dana's self esteem! Next we stopped by the Parks', Dana fixed the door on their van and we used their internet. Then home for a quick rest and change for evening witnessing at 4:30. We were out about an hour before heading over to the Longsworth's for supper - BBQ chicken, green salad, beans and homemade tortillas - so good! We dashed home on our bikes in between rain showers.

We were planning on going to Punta Gorda (PG) with the Patterson's, but because of all the rain it's really flooded down there. We were going to go to the Maya market and see some Mayan ruins. Anyway, we are still having fun but are missing home.

Love,
Carlee