San Pedro Pictures

I promised you some pictures of San Pedro, especially the bread making that Oscar's mom did. Unfortunately, I think I must have picked up Karen's camera by accident because most of the pictures that I took are not on here. Maybe some day she'll post my pictures for you.


The brick oven was heated up with hot coals while Oscar's mom made the dough. Sorry, Aunt Heidi, I have no idea what the recipe is, but it seems like a basic white bread. She did not let it rise, but just made the dough and saved it in a big, green, plastic tub covered with a towel until she was ready.

She cut the dough and twisted it into rolls. Each roll was placed on a piece of banana leaf and then placed into the oven after the coals had been removed and the bottom of the oven brushed out. Karen told me that the banana leaves don't burn, so that's why they're used.

When all the rolls were put inside and the oven was full, they blocked up the openings with pieces of wood and baked them for about 15-20 minutes.

As soon as the rolls were finished, people came out of the woodwork looking for some super-delicious HOT bread! We were not disappointed!

Christopher is sitting on an ant hill. These ant hills are rock hard and fill the fields with little mountains everywhere. The only way they can be removed is with dynomite, they are so hard! The pictures don't do it justice, but they are bright red in color and are fascinating to see.
Our hotel room in San Pedro. The boys were watching a Mickey Mouse show in Spanish on the TV before we left in the morning to go back to Oscar's mom's house.
The bathroom at the hotel is a typical bathroom. Note the shower directly next to the toilet? I found out the hard way that it's not wise to put your clothes on the toilet while you are showering. They get drenched. The shower is also a fantastic breeding ground for mosquitoes. Oscar told us that when he got in his shower, the shower head that has a little tank warming the water started on fire! He jumped out of the shower, flicked the switch off and made Karen ask for another room to shower in. The joys of dealing with a laid back country!