Our First Visitor

We had our first visitor to our home this morning. She lived with some friends of ours in Oregon for a year as an exchange student in 1972. This sweet woman, Marta, lives here in Guatemala City. As soon as our friends learned that we were moving here they wanted us to get in touch with their Guatemalan aunt/sister.

We spoke last night on the phone and she came over this morning. It's so nice to have a connection with someone from here, and to have another person available for help if we need it. We even live in the same zone, which means we live within 15 minutes of each other. Guatemala City is huge and can take an hour or two to get from one side to another with traffic. We look forward to meeting her family and spending time with them. She teaches English but we told her when we meet her family it will be wonderful for us to practice our Spanish.

She read my blog and saw my desire to bake something, so this morning she showed up with a delicious apple pie.

Michael and I each had two pieces for breakfast with our coffee. Deliciosa!

This afternoon we enjoyed getting out for a walk. We were intending on going to a park around the corner from our apartment but it's closed on weekends. We walked another couple blocks to the two-story humungous Wendy's so that Ellie could play in the play area. We've noticed almost every restaurant has a kid's play area. I think because some of the parks are sketchy and being outside isn't often a good option, many people go to the mall or out to eat so the kids have a place to play.

 Tomorrow is a big day! My girls have their first day of school. Wish us all luck!