Week 4.5: Me encanta la comida. Un montón.

So after writing this, I realized a lot of this post is about food and things I ate... Which made me realize that I kind of love food. A lot. Especially the food here. How am I going to live back in the United States??!

Okay, my fun-ness so far this week!

Monday night for FHE we went on a Turibus! It’s a double-decker bus that took us around Mérida and told us all about the historic sites. I wasn’t really paying much attention to the history part, but the old buildings looked SO cool! And we were busy ducking and weaving to avoid tree branches and wires as we were driving haha.

Afterward we went to Colón and got helado! YUM YUM YUM. This time I got chocolate! It was weird though, because it tasted kind of like it had a hint of cinnamon/ginger… But it was still super good!

Unfortunately, from Colón we couldn’t find our way home. So our director had us take a taxi home! It was a little more expensive than a bus (60 pesos, making it 15 pesos each), but it was so much better! The driver was super nice and really fun to talk to! Plus we got home in like 15 minutes, rather than a half hour plus 10 minutes of walking.

Tuesday we got to go out for breakfast for one of our classes!! This time we went to a waffle shop. OH MY GOSH IT WAS SO DELICIOUS. Call me a fatty for eating ice cream for breakfast, but it was so delicious, I don’t even care!

That afternoon it rained SO hard! While I was minding my own business, doing homework in my room, all the sudden there was this GIGANTIC crack of lightning! I almost had a heart attack! It was super close to our house, and then the thunder grumbled grumbled grumbled. I really like thunderstorms though! I think they’re so cool!

After the rain let up a little bit, Kate and I went with our friend Daniel to a park in Southern Mérida. It had a humongous lake in the center. It was awesome! There were ducks, SO many fish, and TURTLES!

Daniel bought some food of some sort (I still don’t know what it was…) to feed the fish and turtles with. When we threw pieces of the food into the water, the fish went crazy!!!
Check it out! (You can even hear me using one of my favorite words, fó!):

We walked around for maybe about an hour. It was so pretty! There was a ton of green, and it reminded me a little bit of my beloved Oregon :)

After the sun was beginning to set, we decided to go out for dinner! Daniel said he knew this awesome pizza place, and they even had vegetarian options for Kate! He told me that I HAD to try this pizza with turkey on it. Turkey on a pizza sounds pretty bizarre though, right? It’s actually really good! Especially with this sauce they had there. We still don’t know what the sauce was…

Right before we ate we heard meowing. We looked for the source of the noise, and Daniel found two kittens behind a bush! OH MY GRACIOUS THEY WERE SO CUTE! But they didn’t have a mommy! It was so sad :’( Some of the boys who worked at the restaurant are going to take care of them though, I think :)

Wednesday our group went to the movie theater to watch the Lone Ranger! Oh my goodness, that movie is SO funny!! I love Johnny Depp!

After the movie, Daniel took the four of us to el parque de las Americas, because Kelsey and Gabi wanted to try something called a “marquecitas". It’s basically a crepe with cheese in it. Sounds pretty good, right? Except apparently a popular choice here in cheese with nutella.

CHEESE.
WITH NUTELLA.

Of course, even though I really didn’t want to, I tried it. And it was icky. I don’t like mixing my salty with my sweet. I don’t like salted caramel or salt on my chocolate. Nope. Can’t do it!

So I just decided to get one with Nutella, with no cheese. Which I was told is actually pretty strange. Oh well, it was super yummy! :)

After we finished eating, we explored the park. There was a shell there, like the ones used for choirs and performances.

Daniel stood on one side of the shell, while Kate and I stood on the other. He whispered something, and we could hear him like he was right next to us, talking normally! IT WAS SO COOL!

That's Gabi, Kelsey, and Daniel on the other side :)

During our exploring, Daniel pointed out a replica of a famous statue that is on a pyramid… Somewhere. It’s of a Mayan man who sacrificed people and offered their hearts to the supreme Mayan god on the plate in his lap.

That position just looks uncomfortable...

Next we ate dinner. TACOS ARABES!!!!!! Yessss, mi amor!

If I could marry tacos arabes with garlic cream sauce, you bet I would. So delicious.

Okie, update time for my favorite missionary!

He and his companion dropped all their investigators because they weren't progressing, which is pretty tough. I can't imagine working with someone, teaching them for a while, and because they won't make the changes they need to, needing to drop them. That's got to be so hard.

However, they still do have some investigators! :) They have one kid who might get baptized in a couple weeks, and there's a woman who only needs to get married, then they should be set.

Alright, I gotta go, so until Monday! :)

753 Days Left! :)