Sunday, March 2, 2014

I woke up this morning and my stomach was not feeling very good.  McCall had the same upset stomach, apparently this stomach bug was going around.  I did my best that morning to make myself feel better and by around 9:30 I was feeling a bit better.  McCall was still feeling crummy, so she stayed behind while Katie and I went to tour a coffee plantation.  The coffee plantation was really neat!  Apparently it takes almost five years from the time they plant a coffee bean until it is ready to sell to make your favorite morning coffee fix.  We had the chance to learn about the seasonal workers who pick coffee, as well as taste coffee plant fruits from the different stages.  Most of them were pretty bitter, but some of them were delicious.  We ended the tour by making a special chocolate recipe and trying some sugarcane juice.  During the tour, Katie and I met this older couple from London who kept asking about tea.  The gentleman, who was actually from New Zealand, made the comment that us Americans have been mean to tea since the Boston Tea Party.  With the exception of sweet tea, that’s probably about right.  After the tour, we checked on McCall and went into town to find her some medicine and go souvenir shopping.  I’m getting some of that done.  I have to commend the hotel that we stayed at because they let McCall hang out in the room past check-out time because she was sick.  This was definitely not something that they had to do, and McCall was very appreciative that they did.  We made the trek up to the bus station and survived the bus trip.  There were plenty of great views on the trip home from up on the mountain; I could even see the ocean.  When we got home, Liliana fed me some soup and let me go to bed because I was about ready to crash.  It was a fun weekend, but like always, it was good to be back in a familiar place.