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Saturday - Dec. 25 - "Feliz Navidad" Today was a beautiful ride through some high hills surrounded by mountains in the countryside. We arrived at 1 pm , thanx to an incredible tailwind ("Viente favor"), at nice beach cabins. This was my favorite place of all that we stayed at. It was so clean and simple and nice. It had a color tv , but we did not touch it or the air conditioner. Both stayed off. This was just 23 km outside of the old colonial city of Trinidad. I ordered lunch in Spanish of course and was really proud of myself ordering for everybody. However, I neglected one detail. The food already came with french fries and salad, so everybody got second side orders of french fries and salad. The waitress did not say a word to us. I guess she thought if that's what they want, that is what they will get. We all laughed quite hard over this( Patricia, I , and Bob). Later David showed up, and we were so stuffed that there was a whole portion of dinner left over for him and Anna. Needless to say my dinner was quite light that night. In the afternoon we took a rowboat tour up a river and back, where a guy dived twice from a high rock- face into the water. We saw Blue Herons, white Herons, Green Herons, Igrets, and red crabs. Shoshona was the birder in our group and she had the book to tell us what was what. She was originally from the Netherlands and had been living in the States along time. She knew some of the towns where my mother had lived in the Netherlands before also coming to the states. In the evening we had dinner, heard and danced to some nice Cuban music (live band) in Trinidad. We also saw a little "Santeria" religious shrine. We all contributed heavily to this shrine firstly for our various wound. Patricia, David Mozers wife, also had quite a few mishaps far worse than mine. I will spare you the details. Secondly we contributed because 2 years ago somebody did not and he wound up braking his hand. We needed all the help we could get. Now it is midnight and we are going to sleep.
