Vacation Laura Style

This last week was rather heavy at Celas Maya and just difficult to get through, so I decided to go on vacation yesterday. For many of my companeros here in Xela that means going to the hot springs or climbing a volcano, but vacation for me looks completely different. I got up on Saturday and made my way to one of the second-hand bookstores near my house. My yoga teacher (whom I did not see at all last week, as I did not attend class) was minding the store for a friend. Needless to say, I will be in yoga class tomorrow. It took me about 30 minutes of wandering through the shelves before I found what I was looking for...a book I could read in a day`s time which would be enjoyable and yet not taxing. In exchange for my 40 quetzales I walked out with ¨Something Blue.¨ I read the first few chapters sitting at a rooftop cafe, drinking orange juice (which I only like when I am not feeling wholly well), and watching life unfold in the central park. After returning home for lunch, I decided to stay put and carried my pillow and sleeping bag up to the roof of the house (we have something of an upper patio there) and made myself comfortable for the rest of the afternoon into early evening. Once more I had to stop to eat with my host family, but I returned to digest the rest of Judy`s life in South Carolina before calling it a night. And that is vacation Laura style. I feel so much better today both in mind and body.