Sunday Trip to Guapiles

Sunday morning we got up early and drove to Guapiles which is a ways east of here to speak at their branch conference. We saw lots of coconut trees.

Much of the drive was through a dense rain forest.

This was a pretty flowering plant in front of a house near the church. Notice the bright blue house. Lots of the houses here are painted bright colors.

Another coconut tree.

I was hoping one would just fall off the tree so I could pick it up and try it.

More coconuts.

The mother of these twins taught the Sunday School class and invited us over to eat afterwards. These girls reminded me of Madison and Savanna, cute girls who looked alike, dark hair and pretty smiles. I think they were about 8 years old. They were in love with the puppies. If I have the relationships right, the other little girl is their cousin, her Dad is the Branch President. Their mothers are sisters and both helped cook the dinner.

A large part of their back yard was devoted to these chickens, several different varieties.

This is a picture of my plate. We had the typical rice and red beans, well seasoned and tasty; topped with chicken. This seemed to have been fried and then simmered in a really good sauce, fried platanos, and salad. The part of the salad at the top of the plate looked a little like potato salad but wasn't. I think it had artichokes in it. All was very good and they were really nice to have invited us to eat. I really wanted to take a picture of the lady frying the platanos, but didn't want to be too pushy so didn't ask. But it was a good set up--hot plates on the back covered patio where they could do a lot of the cooking and we ate out there too, very pleasant.

This was some kind of tree in their back yard. There had been a big black bird in the tree, but it flew away just as I was about to snap the picture. I have had several close pictures when the subject got away!