Antigua again

Since our last post we have been to Margaritas for pizza for John Prices birthday, gone to a youth conference with President and Sister Norman (they were both positively fabulous), gone to Chimaltenango to visit a terminally ill temple worker and had a fabulous meal to boot.

John's birthday.

Very dynamic speaker.

Great Restaurant.

Designed for four but easily would feed eight.

Restaurant interior.

And now today.

We left with the plan of going to Antigua today but due to a detour we ended up at the Valhalla Macadamia Farm. Their nuts can count.  Very clever!

Very smart nuts don't you think.

Beau, the American who now lives and helps take care of the 5 acre farm (head nut he calls himself) gave us a very interesting and informative tour.  He told us that these trees were from Australia and had never been subjected to any kind of spray.  They were very healthy and adjusted to climate changes easily.  They produce about 300 pounds of macadamia nuts per year and drop them daily.

Beau teaching us about the few banana plants and how they grow.

Beautiful Macadamia trees.

Two young men come in each day and pick up nuts from the ground that have fallen.  They are then put through a de-husking contraption and laid out to dry.  Once dry they are sized.  President Norman tried his hand at sorting nuts.  Not too different than his every day job at the temple!

They also bragged that they had the most photographed bathroom in the country, so of course we had to check it out.

Certainly was pretty.

We then went to a market in another small town and spent our money at several places.

Cute family of one of the vendors at the mercado.

After finding all the stuff we wanted we satisfied ourselves with a late lunch at a beautiful restaurant in Antigua then home.

From the roof top.

Roof top accommodations for lunch.

Beautiful gardens at restaurant.