February 19, 2016

Fanning out.  We had really been working on our Schedule and this looked like it might be the last day free for a while.  So, we decided to make a morning trip to Sonsonate.  Eventually, we will need some fans for the church building and we were told of a new place we might could visit called Vidri.  Ricardo said at some point, there was fans on sale there.  I guess that point had come and gone, for there were no sales on fans.  We found several prospects, but thought we might go by Freund before we made a final decision.  We did find a few things.  Vidri, like Freund, has some hardware items, but they also had lots of home and kitchen items.  We found a large, 2 gallon, thermos for transporting coffee so we would not always have to take our big coffee pot out with us.  We also found a Westclock wall clock since the one we got from Dollar City only lasted a day.  Other than that, we mostly got small items.  Our stop at Freund, about a mile away, was to no avail.  We just could not decide on fans for this day.  The days are not so hot now, but they are past due to be blistering.  Our trip home in March will take us through San Salvador, but since it is fixing to be hot weather, we don’t expect to find any great deals.  We had invited Raul, Ana, Cessi and Josue over for dinner, so I had some cooking to do.  I usually try to cook every morning for 3ish hours before I am too tired or it is too hot.  So, I had already cooked a spice cake, potato salad and put chicken on to marinate.  That left green beans and a few details.  Dwaine snapped green beans while I rested.  Then, we went to the church building to get some chairs for Saturday’s event and we wanted to go by and visit with Evelia, who had the tortilla/pupusa stand next to the building.  We have also met her husband.  Looks like we just keep missing each other.  Manual, her husband, was home, but she was out.  We will have to just keep working on that.  Raul and Ana arrived about 6:45 and all was ready.  We visited some and the kids got a big kick of throwing the stuffed animal down the side room for her to fetch.  They took turns for a long time.  We had fried chicken and sides and all worked out great.  Dwaine took them home afterwards.  

Visits with Raul, Ana, Josue, and Cessi