For our last night in Antigua and in Guatemala in general, hotel staff suggested several restaurants for dinner (our Thursday night dinner was not great), and we wound up at the most affordable - and hippest! We were the oldest people in there. It was a Frida Kahlo (the Mexican artist)-themed restaurant, with pictures of Kahlo and very good Mexican food. We let loose a little bit. On the group's behalf, Jane thanked me, with an apropos Guatemala T-shirt.
And we thanked Ellen for her planning, translation, and insightful thoughts she had shared with us during the month before trip with a necklace. Ellen - who had told the Guatemalans she felt caught between U.S. and Guatemalan culture - said helping facilitate our trip and our partnership was a role she cherished all the more, in her official retirement.
Claudia helped Ellen wtih the necklace.
Ellen seemed pleased, while Andrea looked on.
A lone man, a Pacific Northwest schoolteacher named Mike, waiting outside for a seat, had joined us at the last moment. Mike was interesting, and talked mainly with Jane and Lowell.
Mike also gave us some half a dozen lychees, a porcupine-ish red fruit, that I was one of those who tried.
Helping top off the evening - besides the dancing that the women did on the way home - was our waiter, Sergio, who posed here with Claudia and Andrea.
-- Perry
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