A change of plans

The original plan was to go to Carmen’s house for a birthday party for her son Andres. But in the morning, Ramon informed us that Maritza felt very ill, so they were not going to the party. With them not going, we were not going to go either. We could have gone, but since we don’t know Carmen very well, we took the easy out and decided to stay home as well.

We went to the farmer’s market, only intending to buy a few things. We wound up buying much more than we intended to, including a CD of marimba music sold by a musician that had his marimba set up right in the middle of the street. Sofia and Alex also bought necklaces made of malachite. Sofia’s has a turtle and Alex’s has a sun/moon design. We bought a bundle of flowers to take to Nelly’s house on Monday, the day we had arranged to spend with her.

We thought about going to the Children’s Museum in San Jose, but the day had gotten a little late and Bella hadn’t had her nap yet. We had heard that you really need a full day to see the museum, so we decided to wait. That’s the luxury of being here for 6 weeks. If we don’t feel like doing something one day, there’s always another day.

The rest of the day was spent hanging out at the house, watching the World Cup games, and snacking on the fruit and vegetables that we just bought. We made chicken soup for dinner. It was a nice relaxing day. Rainy, of course, which just added to the comfortable feeling of staying inside and taking it easy.