Sunday the "youth" went to go pick guavas (at least that's how I think it's spelled!) at Tannya's parents' finca. A finca is what they call any land you own outside of town that stuff is grown on. :) Basically a farm, I guess, although most people don't live on theirs. I'd gone with Tannya and her husband, Iván, the weekend before and we had fun walking all around, eating a bunch of different fruits; guavas, caimitas, lemons, and I think a few others, but I don't remember their names! They were all yummy and pretty ripe, so they invited a bunch of friends from church to go Sunday and hang out, eating fruit. Sounds pretty boring, but it was hilarious!!!! :) We all crammed into the back of Tannya's dad's truck to for the 10 minute ride to the finca where the entertainment started. Her dad has it fixed up amazingly, my reaction the first time I saw it, was that it looked like Paradise, or the Garden of Eden!
The truck couldn't make it all the way to the guava trees, so we walked for a bit and got to them. A couple of the guys had found hooks attached to looooooooong poles and brought them with us. They started trying to pull the guavas down, from the ground. A couple others had a different technique. They started climbing up into the tree. The guava trees didn't have very large limbs and the guavas were all really high up in the air, but nobody fell out, so that's good, I suppose! :) Meanwhile, most of us were just hanging out, on the ground, watching them and picking up the guavas that fell, to eat. One of the guys, Petete, starting a running commentary similar to the commentaries on nature channels. It was hilarious!! Unfortunately we didn't start taking video until after he'd mostly stopped, and I don't know how to put video on here. :) Oh well, I'll just have to show people when I visit. :)
We also went swimming and hung out some more, then went home and changed, because we were all full of bug bites (I stopped counting after 20 on 1 leg!!!!)
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