A Day of Rest

...And today we rest. We drove out of the city after breakfast and headed to the coast. The Powell's set us up with a beach house that we rented for the day. It was amazing! It sat up on the side of a cliff and overlooked the water. There were hammocks hanging all over the place, which were all occupied in the first few minutes of arriving. It was evident we needed a break. 

For lunch we ordered take out from a neighboring restaurant. We had a couple of mishaps in ordering. Chris ordered an appetizer of fried small fish. Expecting to get pieces of fish, he opened up the box and found dozens of whole minnows fried to a crisp staring up at him. It was priceless! He did try a couple. It tasted like a fishy French fry. The rest were donated to the family running the house. After lunch the team walked down to the beach and played in the ocean and the black volcanic sand. We had a blast!

After our day of relaxation and watching the sun set at the beach, we headed back to the city for dinner. We ate at a gourmet burger joint and as you can imagine, the burgers were fantastic. The milk shakes were pretty good too! It's rainy season in San Salvador but we have had a pretty dry week until tonight...there was a pretty good storm during dinner with crazy lightening and some really loud cracks of thunder. We had to walk back to the hotel in the rain (but it wasn't too bad!).  But the biggest adventure of the day happened when we got back to the hotel and we lost Zan. But don't worry, we found her and all is good!

- Stephanie and Chris Huovinen

Chris' "small fried fish"

Our beautiful view