Road trip

So after having too many days confined to the hotel we ventured out today.  Enough of Varadero .  We hired a taxi for the day and had a great time.   We first went to matanzas. Several years ago we brought a basket of goodies to an orphanage there.  After being at the city square for a short time we said enough of that and asked him to bring us to another town we knew Cardenas.  Well that was just awesome. Unassuming people just living  their life.   The first children we offered gifts, the mother smiled and said no until a lady interrupted and asked are you trying to give them gifts?  We said yes and she interpreted to the mother what we trying to do.   Then it was a whole different story.

It was so fun.  They were very appreciative.mm

We then just took in a back yard baseball game.  What a blast!  We interacted with the locals, they invited your dad to play with them and what fun.  We gave the children gifts, they applauded us when we left.  It was real comraderie.  The taxi driver brought us to his house.  I'll post the picture of his grandchildren.  It was nice to be off the beaten path of tourism and see the locals.  The taxi driver understood what we were after.  

We visited a church too. The outside was so desolate, but the inside was absolutely beautiful.  Stained glass windows, immaculately clean, and the only two ladies there were very welcoming.  A couple of hours later, we drove by the same church and then there were three ladies there!  It was so cool.  I didn't want to disrespect them by taking pictures.  

Well I hope you all had a good day.

Hoping the Internet will cooperate tonight.  It has been very slow to non existent.   Sometimes it will let us connect and then just eat up our time so we disconnect.  Frustrating watching that clock trickle down tick tick tick and not accomplishing anything!  

Forgot to tell you ther is someone from telkwa here too.  The imhoffs.  Their son bought the sporting end of Oscars.  How wild is that to run into someone from our own home town.  It's a small world after all