Somehow it’s been 2 weeks since our last post! Semana Santa (Easter week) is a huge deal here and the country was literally shut down – meaning no office access and no internet cafe. After our recent beach trip to Sambo Creek we decided to bunker down in Trinidad in an effort to avoid the notorious Semana Santa crowds. (Read more about our Semana Santa experiences from last year here and here).
For a tiny bit of fun we had wanted to take a day trip to San Pedro just for something different but the modified bus schedule seemed a little unreliable. Instead, we hitched a ride with Juan who was on his way to a day full of University classes and spent the day at the San Pedro mall. We literally spent the entire day there. Juan dropped us off around 8am and came back to get us around 6pm! Believe it or not it was not as bad as it may sound. By this point in our service we are experts at not being bored even when there is absolutely nothing to do. So spending an entire day in an air conditioned building people watching, window shopping, and eating Baskin Robbins was actually rather exciting! We even saw a movie, Just Go With It, which turned out to be way funnier than we thought. We ended our stint as mall rats with a trip to the grocery store and stocked up on $1 a can Stella Artois, romaine lettuce (salad, oh how we’ve missed you!), cheese, and wine – can’t complain about that.
The rest of the week was pretty quiet as most of the businesses were closed and even the buses stopped running. David took advantage of the quiet time to finish some projects he’d been working on. I, on the other hand, read 4 books, made a bunch of crochet projects, cooked and baked. To celebrate Easter we opened up our last pack of country ham (brought home from our Christmas trip) and feasted on country ham biscuits and black eyed peas – a little taste of home!
It’s almost time to turn the calendar page to May which is already shaping up to be another busy month for us. Engineers Without Borders Lehigh is returning for their first official project visit to La Fragosa! We will also be making a short trip to Marcala to meet with Fred & ADEC and propose another filters project. Our first trip to the West of the country is also in the works to do a topo survey and some sight seeing.
Just to prove that I can make more than just blender dresses, here are some of my crochet projects from this past week…
Purses for the little neighbor girls
Collegiate cozies (2 for you, Kimbo!)
Tools of the trade
Hi Kristi,
Your crochet projects are really nice…crochet and flowers are in style here now 
Love your post…and your resourcefulness in having Country ham and biscuits for Easter
Pam is requesting a Duke coozie…
and Sam will need an ASU one.
I am working on that one! Got plenty of black and yellow yarn!
Just go with it? Was Couples Retreat sold out?
And I assume the VT koozie is a wedding gift.
The place had 6 theaters…3 showing Rio, 2 showing the Easter Bunny movie, and 1 with Just Go With It….we went with the one with humans!
I may have 2 Duke requests…but you probably don’t have blue & white yarn so you might have to whip them up when you’re home in June
and a flower headband for Aunt Julie’s 1st granddaughter 
maybe…
love the skull and crossbones. that is amazing!!
i want a coozie too. Since my alma mater is lame, can you make mine monogrammed in cute girly colors. 
I’ll see what I can do!
hey sissy, sorry i haven’t commented on this sooner, i need to resubscribe to my student email.. but those are AWESOME! haha i can’t believe you did a skull and crossbones.. i’ll use them all the time
love and miss you <3 see you soon!!!
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