Wednesday, January 28th

Today we went to Antigua to give our tired muscles a rest. We toured a coffee plantation. Antigua has the 3rd best coffee in the world.
We stopped at a monastary that had been destroyed in the 1976 earthquake and has been restored to a 5 star hotel.

Oasis Orphanage

This is a picture of one of the den mother(in the green) and 5 of the 44 girls that live in the orphanage where some of the clothes that we brought to Guatemala will be distributed. It was a very touching experience to be able to see where they live and hear some of their stories. The rest of the clothes will be taken up into the hills to a satelite soup kitchen orphanage. The girls there live in straw huts, caves and carboard boxes.

This is a picture of the homes where the girls live.

After a long day of shopping and siteseeing Tom is trying to help Bruce get the swing of things.