With a group of ten, shopping and preparing food is quite a challenge, especially with four teenage guys. The nearest grocery store is 80 minutes away (in a city called La Ceiba) and across three bridges, which often wash out during the rainy season. So families in Loma de Luz typically travel to La Ceiba once every 7-10 days. The day we drove here, we first shopped for food and other supplies in La Ceiba. Finding our needed products in the huge supermarket, deciphering the Spanish labels, and mentally converting the prices to American money made the side trip an experience. We checked out with three full grocery carts. Today we made nine boxes of macaroni and cheese, cooked in a huge pot with two cups of milk and two cups of butter, not to mention all those packages of cheese. When Mary McCall and Caroline were trying to figure out how much to cook, Will and August assured us that they would each eat their own box's worth. Even though they held true to their word, everyone had plenty of food, especially with the fresh papaya fruit.
P.S. Caroline counted her mosquito bites in church today. The grand total is currently 43.
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