The Market

The Market happens every Thursday and Sunday.  

Now that is closer to Christmas things are getting busier.

There are more booths and more people.

Marco has said that just before Christmas it gets so packed that it gets hard to walk, and cars definitely can't pass thru.

Here are a few pictures from The Market (just surrounding our house) this past Thursday.

This is looking down the hill towards the hammock (the bridge in the background). This guy sitting down sells popsicles.  Behind him is where people sell beans and rice.  One of the guys that sells beans stores them in our front porch area and gives us beans for free.  Beans are inexpensive... the price is rising, but they are still inexpensive.  So is rice.... rice actually costs less than the beans per pound right now.  To be completely honest... I'm tired of beans.  We have beans at almost every meal.  Cold beans, hot beans, beans in their 'soup', beans blended and fried, whole beans fried with onion and tomato.... beans, beans, beans!!!

Here is the view looking up the hill.  The booth with the Christmas garland on the left is right in front of our house.  We have to go thru their booth to get in our front gate.  That little red 'car' with the number 20 on it is a taxi. They have three wheels, and a handle bar instead of a steering wheel.  We rode in a taxi once, it was raining and I was sick, we had to go to the pharmacy to pick up some medicine.   Ok, the tree that is in the middle-right... just behind that you can see some concrete peeking thru, back there are stairs that lead up to where the vegetables are sold which is off the picture to the right.

 Here is the Christmas booth in front of our place... you can't even see our front door.  The people that have the booth are really nice and always tell us that our kids are 'munecas' (dolls).  They gave us a door ornament  that is a pair of bells that has lights inside that you can change to make flash, or glow, or fade on and off, etc.

The booth next to the Christmas peeps is a friend of Marco's family.  She is really nice and sometimes Maria will go and sit with her.  Her husband is working in Canada right now.

 Most of the booths sell clothing.  The kids are all really excited because at Christmas they get new clothes.  Some of the most popular clothes are ones that are used and sent from the USA.  People will shout out from their booths what they're selling and how much things cost.  Sometimes I can understand, most of the time I just tune it out.  If they're speaking Spanish REALLY clearly and repeat themselves over and over again I'll get what they're saying.  One guy sells his shirts for 10 lempiras each.