Choco Museo

What a glorious night of sleeping. No AC needed. It was nice and cool and we left the loft open for air. In the morning I was able to dump and filtered water for our tanks. Jason and Ruth have been filtering the tap water for three weeks and felt fine. I have a triple filter with 0.5 microns and antivirus filter and charcoal filter. That's better than my backpacking filter. We met the other RV family. Their RV batteries arent charging so they were trying to get a mechanic to check it out. We didn't know anything about the RV and didn't have any tools. They ended up leaving sometime later but they had shipped their RV from Europe to Chilean and driven up in the last 4 months. The dad was Chilean born but they lived in Switzerland now. They had 2 kids, 2 and 4 years old. Two more vans pulled in and they were a Swiss family. A couple and the man's parents in the other van. They already traveled Canada and the west coast of the US and Baja California. They made it to the arctic ocean. 

We went to explore the Saturday morning mercado where locals from all around come to sell their wares.

We were able to buy chicken meat and fruits and vegetables for less than $12. We didn't make it to the other parts of the market because Dd wanted to go back to the RV. It was a bit much, crowded and dirty. I liked it though but he is much closer to people's waists.

We dropped off the groceries and went to walk around and found boba tea ($12 for two drinks) and had Japanese food for lunch ($50). We met princess cruise tourists on their way to Florida via the Panama canal. The kids did homeschool while waiting for lunch.

We had tempura shrimp, agedashi tofu, sushi, ten don, udon soup. The menu was quite good and even had unagi rice bowl.

We also walked into the nicest Starbucks we have ever seen. After lunch we went back to the RV and the kids played on the scooters, Dd ran with a kite and Ellie and I tried badminton and bumping volleyball. The weather predicted rain and it never came.

At 5 pm we had scheduled a chocolate making class at the Choco Museo, which appears to be a chain available in other countries. It was $14 a person. It was very interesting. Chocolate is made from cacao beans which are pollinated by male mosquitoes. We were able to make a chocolate bar each and flavored them ourselves. We also had a Mayan chocolate milk which was a little spicy. We met an Israeli family travelling in Central America for 3 months. They were not looking forward to going home.

After class we went to the night food stands for chicharrone pupusas for Christine, grilled sausage for Dd and grilled steak for Ellie $3.57 each and a cremita, horchata like drink for 70 cents. We sat next to a Dutch guy who just graduated from University and was going travel from Guatemala to Colombia for the next 2 and a half months. We also bought some tourist stuff. It never rained. We are here for one more day. Hopefully no rain tomorrow.