Thanksgiving Prep……

Today was the day to prep a number of items for Thanksgiving tomorrow. We had school in the morning as usual. Christopher and Caroline learned about persuasive essays and spent much of the morning working on essays to convince their friends to visit them in Guatemala. Hope they are not too disappointed when it does not happen.

After school, Jenny and I worked on making the double layer pumpkin pie. We could not find Cool Whip here, so I spent thirty minutes introducing the cream we bought to the wire whisk. By the end, my hand and arm were tired but we had whipped cream. Jenny got the pie made and it is chilling in the fridge. No ready made graham cracker crusts either, in fact we couldn't even find real graham crackers, so we used some bran crackers that were very similar. The only problem is if I eat too much pie I may spend the rest of the day in the bano (bathroom).

After lunch we went out to find a travel agency in Antigua to take us over to Picaya Volcano on Friday. Picaya is an active volcano south of Guatemala City where they allow visitors to hike or ride a horse to the top. This is part of the kid’s science unit on Geology. We should be able to go and roast marshmallows over the lava. Jenny and Caroline also wanted to get haircuts. While Jenny and Caroline went to the Kinky Afro salon, Luis, Christopher and I went to a museum on the central park that had a bunch of old military stuff, including cannons, swords, muskets, pistols and restraints for prisoners. Luis really liked the cannons and had a good time looking at the rest of the things there.

When we got back to the apartment, we played for a while, had dinner, got cleaned up and into our Christmas jammies for a quick episode of the magic school bus. Luis was so excited that his usual 45 minute bath lasted all of 2 minutes. Here is a picture of the kids and Jenny on the couch watching the show before heading up to bed.