Es la viernes.

Woo, its Friday, and that feeling of "thank god yes! it is the weekend" doesn't wear off even in Nicaragua. Sarita (as all the Nicas here call her) and I (they call me Alysia) might be going out in the great town of Managua with Emily this weekend. Although, I don't know how feasible that is because I seemed to have misplaced about 50 cords. D'oh!
In other news, I harvested achiote yesterday at Becca and Pauls house. First of all, Becca and Paul are awesome people/ She is from Idaho and he is from Ireland. They met and moved to Nicaragua/ Their daughter Eibhlin has an American and Irish passport and just turned 1. Paul studied furniture production in college and built an amazing house on the mountain about 20 minutes away. It is made of straw bale construction, with recycled *found* hard wood and eucalyptus It is bea-yooooo-tiful. Seriously. It was a little piece of paradise. After harvesting with Renaldo, I sat in the backyard and broke the achiote seeds out of their pods for an hour. Achiote is a bright red seed used for food coloring. I will be using it for a fungus cream. Needless to say, at the end of an hour I had bright red hands.
Today I will continue to process the achiote and celebrate Friday! Enjoy yours as well!