Last week I was in Sololá with my cousin Carolyn. She first went to Guatemala as part of the Peace Corp. Now she is married and working in one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen.
We had a nice balance of family time, tourist sights, and rest. Plus a TON of good food. I really enjoyed getting to know Carolyn's husband Edyn and his family better. By the end of my time with them I felt like part of the family.
There is a lot of tradition in Edyn's family. Every Easter they make bread in a stone oven heated by wood that Edyn's Dad made. They spend almost a week, baking bread every day and selling it to the community. It was a lot of bread. On Wednesday we helped bake bread with the family. I got to see the whole process, from making the dough, to forming the dough into special shapes, to running the trays of dough to the oven when the oven hit the right temperature and watching it bake. Then they separated it into baskets for the families who ordered from them.
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| This was the first thing I saw when I walked into the room where they were all working. LOTS of bread. But this is only a small portion of what they made. |
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| Bags and bags of flour |
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| Cartons and cartons of eggs |
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| Soon after this, we were told the men needed to take over ;) |
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Something is wrong with my computer. I can't post any more photos for some reason. Hope you enjoy these!
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