Sunday, August 30, 2009

Finally a day at the beach











After spending a week at the orphanage it was time for a break. We ended up catching a ride into the capital with the director of the orphanage where Kristin was able to make it to the teacher store and drool over everything she wished she had in her classroom here. I went to the tile store to look for new tiles for the new volunteer house and got some prices. After that we had the opportunity to check out Price Smart and buy some peanut butter and jelly, and some corn flakes since we get free bread and milk at the orphanage along with lunch and dinner if we want but its usually just Yuka, or rice and milk and sugar. So we thought we would get some necessities. Then the directors dropped us off in Juan Dollio a small beach town about 12 km from our orphanage which is a great place to hang and spend some time away. We found a cheap hotel that gives us a special discounted rate $12/night which is pretty good, and is about 1/2 mile from the beach.