La Yeguada

This Saturday the church wanted to thank all the volunteers who helped participate in the Feria de la Sandia by taking all of us to La Yeguada for food, music and dancing.  If we haven't told you already La Yeguada is a gorgeous National Forest Reserve that is home to the water reservoir La Laguna, towering pine trees, and beautiful rolling mountains.  La Yeguada is one of the only places in Panama that truly brings us back to the Northwest.  We started off the day packing an unthinkable amount of people into a bus, while I squeezed like a sardine between a man standing next to me with his butt in my face on one side and a women nursing a baby who looked too old to nurse on my other side. While Brennan was at the front of the bus nearly hanging out the sliding door. Thankfully we made it out alive without getting too car sick from the winding roads and extreme body heat created by the crammed bus.  The fiesta was definitely worth the ride.  One plate of arroz con vegetales and two banana bread slices later we were sitting pretty.  The beautiful atmosphere, lively tipico music, and curious kids asking us to say anything in English made for a memorable day.

Eric showing off his throwing power

Mitsy our new little friend we met at the fiesta

Here Brennan and I are stilling in the back of a pickup truck sitting in plastic chairs with watermelon swarming our feet.  At least Dayana's chair was roped down to the truck's canopy before we took off.  Sorry mom and dad we know this isn't safe, but now we do as the Panamanians do.  We made it out alive and only got a little car sick.