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 f...
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