In addition to ALL the shoes that were so easily collected for Ethiopia (see post below), we also did a SCHOOL SUPPLY collection for the inner-city near us. The response was tremendous. We just had some notices go out in the usual school e-mails & put a box in the front of our public school (again with great support from our principal). Families dropped off any extra supplies (stickers, markers, crayons, paper, coloring books..)...anything in good condition. And we had the priviledge of bringing those to the inner city school who's students do not have all this stuff to play with over the summer. The inner city school was super appreciative. It is so great to get to connect our "extra" with someone who thinks its "special". We also left the box open at the end of the school year for any supplies parents didn't want at home...we plan to distribute those also for summer-time fun for more inner city kids.So all of this brought us near a Guatemalan restaurant (in daylight hours). It was the 1st time we have had Guatemalan food since we were there picking up Zach. (and no, it does NOT taste like Mexican, but it super delicious also) The smells & tastes brought back so many good memories. The restaurant was decorated great, very clean (bonus for me :), and the food was outstanding!
Zach loved everything he tried & was so proud of being there. We were totally loving ourselves too...he said at some point "are you so happy I was from Guatemala so you could eat here?" We are sooo happy he is from Guatemala!!! I proudly told the waitress that he was from Guatemala, she said she already could tell. It was authentic Guatemalans running the restaurant (very limited English) but very hard workers!
Zach's favorite was getting to drink pop from the bottle!
Guatemalan tableclothes
And they had an amazing wall with so many pictures on it, bringing back so many memories, it was so fun to get to talk about them with Zach! We missed BJ because he was at school, but we will look forward to going back again!!!!
And they had an amazing wall with so many pictures on it, bringing back so many memories, it was so fun to get to talk about them with Zach! We missed BJ because he was at school, but we will look forward to going back again!!!!
What fun! I was hoping you were going to give me a recipe for Guatemalan food! I remember, too, how it was NOT like Mexican. I'd love to know how to cook something.
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