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Painting Nails, Cacao Drinks, and More

All the girls in my host family and I had a mini salon session together - everyone from one-year-old baby Isis to grandma Doña Vanega had their nails painted! 


I cooked tomato sauce and caramelized onions to accompany our lunch of fried fish



And used crema to customize each fish with our names! 


One of my favorite past-times is feeding carrots to Joka the Rabbit


And I drank a delicious, refreshing drink called "cacao" with Gabriela 


It tastes like chocolate milk, but less sweet, icy cold, and with lots of cinnamon 


Here's a picture of the view from the inside of a camioneta (incredibly difficult photo to get, and at the expense of other passengers giving me weird looks)


And the outside of a camioneta, at the market station behind the cathedral 

             Packed like sardines

I was also surprised to find that the avocados here are reddish in color....


And have enormous pits! 


Here's the enormous veggie nacatamale I had for dinner tonight, with my hand for size reference! 



And lastly, Paulino, in a traditional shirt worn for the celebration of San Geronimo













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pkoaktown said…
118Hi Lauren,
This is Paul (pkoaktown) - hope I got your name right! I've been following all your blogs and I must say you are quite the writer! The harassment thing is terrible. I just hope you don't let it ruin what should be a great experience. Female tourists in Italy used to get this kind of treatment and I witnessed a female American tourist beat a harasser with her purse. You might try walking with a male companion and see if this helps.Buena Suerte, Paul in Oakland
September 28, 2014 at 12:20 PM
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