Oh Mondays--you never know what to expect; they're always different. Last week was pretty straightforward, and we walked home again with Santos Emilia (Francisco's wife) and two of her sons, a 14-month old and a 13-year old. They even came in to the monastery for a bit and did afternoon prayers with us.
This morning, Orvín, the 13-year old showed up at our house as we were getting ready to leave in order to gift us with some tamalitos de elote (fresh corn) from his mom! Since we were about ready to go, he waited for us and then we all walked to Chito's together. Well, he rode his horse. Upon arriving, Chito informed us that we were tempranitas today--earlier than usual. Then we checked in at the neighbors' (who happen to be Chito's in-laws), and were gifted with a slice of watermelon! A delicious treat.
A few minutes after we started walking down the road to Limón, a nice young man who Prairie knew stopped to give us a lift in his pick-up. He and his wife have a new baby, and when Prairie asked him how he was, he just glowed with adoration and wonder and responded "es lindo, es muy lindo" (lindo=beautiful/sweet/precious). Obviously the first child of a proud daddy.
It was another slow day at the Centro, and there wasn't any mail (because of the rain?), and then we had lots of shopping to do. And it was HOT! We bought some frozen milk malt drinks for the walk home, one strawberry, one vanilla-flavored. They taste like of like milkshakes. Yummy! As we were preparing to leave town and find a place to eat our lunch, a man came up to us who knew Prairie and offered to give us a ride! So off we went in his rattly little car with its flat tire...He took us about a third of the way down (up) our desvío--yay! And we were glad he stopped, because we're not sure his car would have made it much farther down that road! We were home between 1 and 2 -- about the time we've been left Limón the other weeks! I definitely prefer getting back early and having a relaxed afternoon. It was a good day.
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