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So, as a precursor, I feel like my blog posts have been a bit negative of late, and I am going to try to get back on a positive track with this edition. Last weekend my parents flew down to El Salvador and we spent five days hanging out there in the picturesque town of Suchitoto. It was an amazing weekend for a number of reasons, first and foremost being that I had not seen my mother for the last 16 months (since june of 2010). This is by far the longest time I have ever gone without seeing her and it was definitely starting to wear on me (though apparently not as much as it was wearing on her, seeing as she dropped her bags and sprinted across the airport to hug me when I showed up to pick her and my father up).
Overall the weekend was amazing and full awesome side adventures (like our trip visit to a local illegal chaparo still [chaparo is a kind of local moonshine made from corn], and our visit to the village I worked in with an aid trip 4 years ago]). The highlights however (besides seeing my parents of course), were the sweet hotel we stayed at and the amazing food we ate. While this may make me see shallow (just concentrating on creature comforts), try to imagine how amazing a high priced hotel and good international food would be after 16 months of living on $8 a day in a tiny mud brick house that smells like mold and rats (for those of you without imagination, it is really, really amazing). I ate like a pirate king for 5 days, nothing but delicious food (I had 2 american style steaks, sushi, and even jamon serrano imported from Spain… that’s right expensive imported ham) and top shelf booze (well except for the moonshine, that was some pretty bottom shelf booze [like hobo booze]). Overall it was an spectacular weekend with my parents and my good friends from the states who live in Suchitoto.
