Friday, September 27, 2013
Guatemala
In Guatemala City we stayed at Semilla - the Anabaptist seminary. These flowers were very pretty, but a bit hard to walk through at night. |
We visited the Mennonite Church in Guatemala City and participated in the Saturday morning music program. Here a young man is learning to drum, instead of joining a gang. |
This is the aforementioned dump. A well organized though smelly place to work in, or look down upon for that matter. |
The Spanish government built these new homes on the edge of the lake. Spain feels some responsibility for their historical treatment of the Mayan people. |
Here is one of the three volcanoes surrounding lake Atitlan. |
El Salvador
We met Rosa, who has 10 children and 18 grandchildren. MCC has provided her family with School kits for 18 years now. She lives in an illegal shanty town called "La Linea". |
We visited another daycare that was teaching dental hygiene. It is great to see who benefits from receiving a hygiene kit. |
Raul was our driver for the duration of the learning tour. Nancy was our guide, organizer and translator. They helped to make the tour a lot of fun. |
Sunday, September 01, 2013
Going home
Everyone got up, had breakfast and came along to Heathrow to see us off.
Here we are with all our luggage in terminal 4. We finally got to use the extra bag we packed just for this purpose.
Just after take off we saw Windsor Castle. It's that white set of buildings which the greenway running vertically from the bottom of the picture leads to.
Our flight to Minneapolis was nine hours in duration. Arthur watched three movies. We were fed twice.
We were late in arriving in Minneapolis and had to go through immigration, collect our bags, go through customs, recheck or bags and then go through tight security, so had little time to make it to our gate. The gates couldn't have been further apart, so we got in a nice brisk walk to exercise some of those sitting-too-long muscles.
The boys picked us up at the Winnipeg airport and drove us home to a neat yard, clean house and semi stocked refrigerator.
It's been a great vacation.