On the fourth day, in the evening, we drove to San Salvador. We visited Alfredo's aunt Miriam. She shared quite a few photos of the family including several of Alfredo's dad. We've never seen any photos of Alfredo's dad as he passed away when Alfredo was young and Alfredo doesn't have any photos, so that was neat to see. For most of the rest of the trip, we would be staying in a house outside of San Salvador, so we then went to the house. Alfredo's aunt, Ana (wife of Oswaldo) was also in El Salvador visiting and she spent a couple of days at the beach house and then came with us to Miriam's and spent the night at the house in San Salvador.
The next morning we drove to see the San Salvador Temple and then had lunch with Ana.
For breakfast, we tried a couple of new fruits. First we tried maranon japones. To me it tasted like an unripe plum.
We also tried paterna. It's pretty good.
Everything is so green in El Salvador and there are so many beautiful plants and flowers. The temple grounds were closed (it was Monday) so we just walked around outside the fence, but it was still great to be close to the temple.
As we were walking by the temple, Gabby saw a man in a car scowling. She stared at him and scowled back (she has quite a grumpy face when she wants to). They stared for a few seconds, and then she said they both burst out laughing at the same time.
After lunch, Ana's family picked her up at the mall and we headed to Santa Ana. We were supposed to meet Sergio and Jeannette (who goes by Jenny) but we had trouble getting in touch with them. So we wandered around Santa Ana for a bit on our own, and then met them for dinner and went back to downtown Santa Ana to see the Cathedral and Theatre at night.
If you look at the photos of the Cathedral, you can see there are many pigeons. (I started singing Feed the Birds but my kids thought that was incredibly embarrassing...it's so easy to embarrass teens! And I couldn't remember more than just a few words so I stopped.)
Alfredo was taking photos of the girls and I and ran at the pigeons, causing them to fly up in our faces and he got a great shot and video of them swarming us and the girls ducking.
There was a military band playing in the town square. Also, there are police, military and security guards all over and they all have guns. Nearly every store has 1-2 security guards with guns.
Michelle tried a lemonade with mint and she loved it.
As we were walking around the town square in Santa Ana, Michelle said, "There's a man with no pants. Don't look!" All of us turned and looked and sure enough there was a man with no pants. In my defense, I thought she said there was a man with no hands and I wanted to go give him some money if that was the case. We laughed about the crazy man (who was yelled at by another man to put his pants on and it looked like he was going to) and how rather than serving as a warning, Michelle's exclamation led all of us to turn and look. I guess we aren't very good at following instructions.
In Santa Ana, there is a Wendy's. On the Wendy's sign, Wendy has brown skin (but still red hair and freckles). The girls pointed it out. Interestingly, in San Salvador, the Wendy's sign is just like the US signs.
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