Trey and Tee with friends
I wish you could have heard this band--the parades were very different. This one was composed of two bands--that's it. They just marched down the street and played their music--it was phenomenal! Their costumes were gorgeous. Parades occurred like that all over. You could see them a couple of blocks ahead and then run and watch for a few minutes. There were a bunch of small parades all over. This band was from Panama.
Anna and Dianne Wilson watching the parade--she and Rick let us borrow their Vonage phone to call home for the first few days before we had internet service
The tent for ambassadors
Carmen had so much fun waving her Costa Rican flag!
Here's Elijah hamming it up. . .
And then the protesters, of course!
The bus trip downtown
The flowers and trees will take your breath away!
Gabriel with his two flags--the red, white, and blue one is Costa Rica's flag and the other is San Jose's.
I never thought that ordering ice cream would make me so happy. . . On the Dia de la Independencia here, we all went into the downtown area--about a 15 minute bus ride. It was quite a day. But I'll never forget the feeling I had when we all sat down to eat our ice cream and I realized that I had ordered everything in Spanish, and we had all gotten exactly what we wanted! : ) Little by little, we're getting it!
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