Yay! A Visit from Family!

We were visited by Carlos' cousin Lety and her husband Miquel and two boys who live in Barcelona, Spain. It was so good to see family! It may be hard to believe, but at the same time that we were showing family around the island, we were locating, contracting, and furnishing three apartments for a senior missionary couple that came while they were here, and two more that will be here soon, and we were in the middle of the audit season. Whew! Talk about busy! But it was so much fun!

Elias and Iker were enthralled by Jessica and Melina, sisters who come by the apartment three times a week sell us fruit. Melina is a member of the Church. The boys made fast friends with them and wanted to go down to see them every time they came.

This is Lety with Jessica on the left and Melina on the right. Lety was sad the day she had to say goodbye to them.

Yummy ice cream downtown. The sign in the back says: You can't buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream, and it's pretty much the same thing. :) We agree!!! When Lety lived with us for a year in Highland, she used to say, "You Mormons don't drink or smoke or drink coffee, but you sure do eat a lot of ice cream". Haha. So true!

A visit to a wonderful restaurant in Cidade Velha. 

This gentleman lives in Cidade Velha. He stopped and chatted for quite a while with his sweet little daughter.

The pillory, historic centre of Ribeira Grande (currently Cidade Velha), former capital of the island of Santiago. The Pillory from 1512 recalls the history of the slave market.

This sweet lady peddles her wares at the town square. She is from Senegal, straight east of Cabo Verde, where they speak French.

View from the old fort above Cidade Velha.

On the San Francisco (CV) beach.

View from the Praia lighthouse.

They wanted to visit one of our churches, so we took them to the building where most of the stake events are held, Achada Santo Antonio. The stake presidency meeting had just concluded, and they got to meet the stake presidency.

Pizza in Tarrafal, our favorite town on the island.

This is a lovely Natural Park of the Serra Malagueta, where many people from all over the world come to hike.

The corn is growing! They plant it everywhere, even on steep hills. 

In this photo you can see people planting and weeding.