Travel

Momma, What is "pan frances"? Claire, carrying pan frances (French bread). It is a tradition among Salvadorean families to buy freshly baked bread everyday. A lady and her daughter will bring a big basket with different varieties to choose from. Claire enjoyed this daily routine, a few steps, and there she is, right outside the neighborhood!

“The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas, and to furnish the imagination with pictures.... The child gets his rudimentary notions of geography...in those long hours out of door.... He gets his first notions of a map from a rude sketch...or with a stick in the sand or gravel. ...Let him be at home in any single region; let him see, with the mind’s eye, the people at their work and at their play, the flowers and fruits in their seasons, the beasts, each in its habitat; and let him see all sympatheticall, that is, let him follow the adventures of a traveler; and he knows more, is better furnished with ideas, than if he had learnt all the names on all the maps" Charlotte Mason

Momma, what's a Lagoon?
Playing at the "Laguna Verde", the Green Lagoon located inside the crater of the volcano that holds the same name. This is what we learned while running, picking flowers and rocks:

Volcaninc origin, 5650 feet over sea level, aproximately 1300 square feet, and 15 ft. of depth in the center.

Life at home away from home

Ethan at the beach having too much fun!

Ethan-ism:

Momma, we can't go back home.

Why not, E?

Well, if go back home they're (referring to all the cousins, friends, aunts) going to feel AWFUL. That's why Momma; we have to stay here!!

I don't blame him !!!!