Easter Week plus

Easter week was interesting around here.  The Catholic girls school across the road did these little parades carrying these huge "floats" of Christ and of Mary around the block.  They spent a lot of time creating designs on the pathway out of sawdust and flowers.  Took a lot of time to make and a minute to destroy.  Kind of like fireworks without the ooo, aaah. They were waving incense burner things and playing music.  There were men on both ends of the floats to boost it ever once in awhile as the young ladies drooped on occasion.  Apparently people have to pay a small fortune to be allowed to carry the floats.

Sawdust road decor

Designs and colors were awesome

Girls lining up along the pathway

Note the floats swaying back and fourth

President had the audacity to go to Antigua for the Pascua (Easter) parades without us and saw a lot more impressive one than we did.  He promised next year we could go.

Antigua  

Antigua float

Antigua float

Antigua street decorations

 

Monday March 28th
Last Monday we went to the central market next to the main plaza.  It is mostly tourist stuff and dad bought a couple of "man bags" and I purchased a couple of Guatemalan blouses.  The blouses are gauzy material and cool.  They are also very bright colored.  We also found a molcajete (stone bowl with a pestle for grinding stuff like chocolate).  The Dibb's got a phone call from their grand-daughters mission president that they could visit her in San Lucas for lunch.  She was being transferred the next day.  So Normans, Dibbs and we Hursts headed to San Lucas and had lunch with her and her companion Sister Ziga.
After lunch they took us to one of their areas and dropped them off.  We headed for home and low and behold we got lost but with the GPS we finally got home.  She did take us on some out of the way roads.  We decided to go grocery shopping the next morning.

GPS Lola's idea of getting home

Conference was great Saturday and Sunday.  Between conference Sunday we had a dinner with all the missionaries but since that is our traditional time to do a Skype chat with all the kids at once, we ate quickly and excused ourselves.  We didn't want to give the kids a chance to talk about us too much.

The flowers are gorgeous here though not much if any smell to them.  We see cascades of what seem like Lilacs from a distance but they are not.  And no smell.  So disappointing.

These are not Lilacs.

Close up of "Lilacs"

We also have telephone booths all over.  Not big enough for Superman to change in for sure.