Breakfast and other pleasures of Monterrico

So Mom and I quickly figured out that one of our great loves was a good Guatemalan breakfast! This first morning in Monterrico solidified it for us. Breakfast was coffee, two fried eggs, refried black beans, toast, salsa, fried plantains with a cream sauce, a wedge of cheese and a little piece of chorizo. Heaven is breakfast and it exists in Monterrico. Here is Mom.

So this day we went to an animal preserve, Arcas, specifically protecting sea turtles, iguanas, and crocodiles. This place also hatches baby sea turtles for release in the ocean.

So after getting eaten alive by mosquitos, err, I mean wandering around the reserve, we hung out on the beach and later found a hotel with hammocks in the shade and really good chips and dip. What more does one really need? That evening we returned to the preserve.

Everyone congregates on the beach at 5:30pm and watches the preserve workers release the baby sea turtles in to the ocean. We sponsored two turtles and named them. One after my dad, Bob, and one after my adopted grandmother/family friend, Sister. There was something so touching about naming new little lives after wonderful people. I hope it gives them an advantage in life, because they say that only 1 in 100 sea turtles lives to adulthood. Hopefully these two do...

Here are ours with their littermates.