Here are some more pictures. The island we were on was extremely laid back and slow paced. Very old buildings, not many modern structures, we saw very few people that had all their teeth, and most of the buildings were lava rock stacked up and plastered. Sometimes not even plastered. The roads were narrow, and there was no shoulder. When you parked, you just parked on the road and people drove around your car. That was so funny to me. Ants and flies everywhere, even in the restaurants, (well, bars that serve food is a little more accurate.) There were still miles and miles of lava rock walls dividing the pastures, and those dark heavy rocky walls just made the blue sky and green plants that much more beautiful. It was really pretty when it was foggy, because the rock walls you could see forever, but the green trees and other plants would disappear in to the white clouds. When it was foggy, the white Hydrangers looked like the fog jumping out from the distance and resting on the leaves. To sum up, even though there were there were some modern sights, that island was a step back in time.
When we flew out to go home, we stopped in another Island, San Miguel. We were able to meet up with his brother for a few minutes there. San Miguel was very modern. It had beaches, roads with more than one lane, parking lots, restaurants that weren't buzzing with flies, and very modern and pretty buildings and hotels. People were dressed very nicely, with chains around their nekcs and gel in their hair. The town could have been plucked out of the east coast somewhere. If I hadn't been able to see it, I would have been under the impression that all the islands were like St. George. But they weren't. St. George was still small and quaint and old. It was very charming though. Where else was Bela going to be able to see someone milk a goat, fetch the chicken eggs in an abandon rock house, play in grape vines, and wake up to a rooster? Or pick an endless number of flowers to put in her hair? Walk down the road and stop to feed a baby cow?
This is a picture at his aunt's house. It was beautiful. They had a really great view too, but you can't really see it cause it was foggy on this day. They had plants everywhere, and some potted cactuses. Lots of people had cactuses in pots. The white house in the forground on the right is the living house. In the back on the left is the house where he has a contraption to grind corn in to flour. With a donkey. The house on the right in the back is their store house. They had potatoes all over the floor, piles and piles of onions and corn hanging from the ceiling.



It looks beautiful there. I want to see more pictures. Especially of Bela feeding a baby cow.
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