Buenos dias!
Ethan and I on the airplane to Guatemala!
All is well here in Guatemala!
We have moved into our apartment and are getting settled. Our translator's name is Vicky, she and Ethan became friends last year, and I got to meet her yesterday. She is so great and is constantly giving Ethan trouble--which is much needed! He can use someone to keep him on his toes.
We have had several meetings to figure out what we need to do in order to get all our paperwork complete. We have talked to so many people and still have so many questions but we are in the process of finding out everything we need to do.
Our apartment is really cute. We had talked to our landlord (her name is Maria, she also runs the hostel, Quetzalroo, that Ethan stayed at all last summer--Ethan calls her his Guatemalan Mom) when Ethan came down in June. We had asked for a furnished apartment, but we didn't know how much she was going to be able to get done before we arrived. So we were hoping that we would have a bed--and that was about where our hopes were at. And what we got, was an adorable little apartment, fully furnished and decorated. It has everything we could possibly ever need and it was very obvious that Maria worked very hard in order to get it ready. It was so nice of her and the apartment is so great! Here are some pictures!
These are the stairs leading up to our apartment.
Our front door.
Our living room.
Our bedroom.
Yesterday Ethan and I also went to the open air market in order to get some food. The market was awesome and really fun! For any produce lover, it can't be beat! We'll have to get some pictures of the market itself later, but we did get some pictures of what we got. The produce is all very reasonably priced--we spent $5 total.
Our haul from our first day at the market.
They have a lot of the same fruits and vegetables but they also had a lot of different ones as well. We got to try two new fruits yesterday--lichi and zapote. Lichi is a small red fuzzy ball that once you peel, tastes very similar to a grape but much sweeter. Zapote is a firm grey-brown round fruit with a dark brown seed and tastes very much like a sweet potato.
The new fruits we got to try--lichi (top) and zapote (bottom).
Yesterday we also got to see a friend of ours, Anna, again. Anna has come to Guatemala many times in order to get data and research for her dissertation on midwifery and she and Ethan became friends last summer. I also got to meet Anna last fall when she came to Denver. She arrived back in Guatemala City yesterday and we invited her over for dinner. Ethan and I have 2 plates, 2 bowls, 2 cups, and 2 sets of silverware--so dinner was BYOP style (Bring Your Own Plate). It was so nice getting to see her again!
Other than that, that about sums up our past few days. The weather here is absolutely amazing and the people we've met could not be nicer.
Saludos!
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