As is our custom in the afternoons, today Hubs and I took a long walk through the city. Many interesting things can be found on the streets of Antigua.
Low-tech home defense system: cement & broken bottles.
The band. Who wants an autograph?
Hubs liked this one.
The cars in here are extremely varied. Beaters mixed in with new Mercedes, BMWs, restored classics and hippie vans.
Laundry delivery van.
Clean energy.
In Antigua, the streets are cobblestone. This makes a pooper scooper worthless. Instead, the horse poops in a bag behind him. How convenient!
Today we took some new streets and found a pastry shop that is OFFICIALLY my favorite bakery of all the bakeries I have ever been in. The display cases were filled with absolutely intricate pastries decorated with chocolate and fruit, beautiful and perfect full-size cakes and fancy bread rolls. Hubs bought me a nice creme-filled croissant for $0.75. It was perfect; sweet like a pastry, but not sickly-sweet like donuts I am used to eating in the States. Even my favorite custard-filled long johns could not hold a candle to the pastry I ate today. If I could have my own bakery, it would be exactly like the one we visited this afternoon.
We've got only two more days of Spanish school, so I'm studying hard to learn in as much as I can before we leave Antigua. Yesterday after school I kept replying "si" ("yes") to Hubs after spending my five hours with Aura. I think the Spanish is getting to my head.
-Bethany
Today we took some new streets and found a pastry shop that is OFFICIALLY my favorite bakery of all the bakeries I have ever been in. The display cases were filled with absolutely intricate pastries decorated with chocolate and fruit, beautiful and perfect full-size cakes and fancy bread rolls. Hubs bought me a nice creme-filled croissant for $0.75. It was perfect; sweet like a pastry, but not sickly-sweet like donuts I am used to eating in the States. Even my favorite custard-filled long johns could not hold a candle to the pastry I ate today. If I could have my own bakery, it would be exactly like the one we visited this afternoon.
We've got only two more days of Spanish school, so I'm studying hard to learn in as much as I can before we leave Antigua. Yesterday after school I kept replying "si" ("yes") to Hubs after spending my five hours with Aura. I think the Spanish is getting to my head.
-Bethany
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