El Salvador Vacation...

We had an amazing 41/2 days in El Salvador. We rented a house with a view, as you can see from the picture. Time was spent swimming, reading, eating amazing El Salvadorian pupusas and seafood.

We also cooked for ourselves a couple nights. While I can't take props for too much of the actual making of the food, I'm thankful to be friends with great chefs!! :) We made carne asada, chismol, platanos, and a fried potato medly. Que rico!!!

One of the mornings, we pried ourselves away from the pool and our books to venture into the capital city San Salvador about 40 minutes away from out beach house. We visited the museum of Oscar Romero, a Catholic priest who was martyred 31 years ago for preaching social justice. I've heard him referred to as an El Salvadorian Martin Luther King. After the museum we ate the BEST hotdogs ever! Now I would normally not rave about hotdogs but these were phenom. They had caramelized onions and were fried in grease that was probably 5 days old but was exploding with flavor. Ya they were that good. During our day trip we made a special stop at STARBUCKS! This was my 1st Starbucks experience in Central America. I felt like we were back in the States. I had an iced caramel macchiato!

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Great friends, great food, great country, great times :)

This last week at school has been a refreshed week! So thankful for the break.

PTM: I was walking my kiddos back from PE and before we entered the classroom I stopped them and told them that everything needed to cleared off their desk, nothing could be on top of the desk. We were working with small math pieces. So they all clear off their desks and I pass out the base 10 block packets and we start working with them. I look over at a boy name Angel and he is crouched underneath his desk. I give him the "what do you think you are doing look" and he looks back at me and says all sincerity, "Meese you say nothing on top of the desk...I am below the desk!"