some pictures taken while the Spanish class was here

I was sitting here for about an hour now working on a nice long boring post with lots of stories and pictures that I took while the spanish class was here. Unfortunantly, Firefox choose to freeze up on me and shut down and so I lost some work. I did open up my keylogger program and was able to see the stuff that I wrote, but since it saves all keystrokes, including the delete key (my favorite), it makes recovering anything usefull as dificult as retyping everything. So, I will just put the pictures back in, and let them speak for themselves.

The great ride on the back of Abel’s truck.

Jared, the awesome skateboarder in flip-flops. David was a great voice-activated lightstand.

Here are a few pictures from the day shopping in downtown San Salvador.

Jared, Jacob and I went into an Catholic cathedral and looked around some. It was nice and peaceful in there. 50 feet away on the street, there was caos; people hollering, trying to sell stuff, but yet inside it was all quiet.

That evening we went to eat pupusas up at Los Planes, where there is a nice lookout of San Salvador. This was the first time that I was up there with a camera and a tripod.

I figured I should stick in a picture of Tim. He got into some amazing places with his determination and crutches.

Last Monday we climbed the volcano Izalco. I had a hard time of it for some reason. I guess I’m getting old. Emily, the youngest in the group, did pretty good, although she did get tired out.

We bought a bunch of water bottles and gatorade to take along. It ended up that not as many did the hike as originally planned, and it was cool and overcast, so we had a lot of water left over.

The hike back up Cerro Verde was very nice, if you stopped to enjoy the view. I choose to stop often, and rest, and just live in the present, and not thinking about the rest of the hike before me yet.

The living room here at home was nearly always full of people.

The last evening that they were here we went to Pizza Hut. Dad got the Pizza Hut people to sing an ‘early Happy Birthday’ for Andrea.

Here is the whole group.

And their luggage.

And lastly, here is Jared dressed like a….something…

Anyways, I’ll probably put these pictures, and a lot more, on facebook. I’ll post the link here if I ever get that done.

- Aaron

~ by Aaron on May 31, 2009.