On Saturday, Ms. Mig invited me to spend the afternoon with her family. They took Diana and me in the back of the pick-up for ice cream at the Western Dairies Mennonite farm.
And since you’ve been good, I’ll show you this one.
We also went to the huge Mennonite Farmer’s Trading store in Spanish Lookout (I call it Wal-Mart) and—get this—I ran into someone I knew! I saw a student and her family from San Marcos while Diana and I were buying massive quantities of gummy bears. I actually got to introduce two families in Belize who didn’t know each other. It’s the third time I’ve run into kids who know me outside the village. It felt like Fort Wayne, so, you know, like home.
Before dinner, Diana took me to her neighbor’s house to ride horses (which I don’t really love) BUT I do love baby spider monkeys on leashes. Diana rode horses. I played with the little monkey.
Pouting Monkey
Hide & go seek
The boys brought us this weird fruit from the top of the tree called Jack Fruit—little pods of sticky fruit that taste like a cross between bubble gum and bananas.I fed it to the monkey.
When I got home, I was the third in the house to come down with an instant sore throat and sinus infection.They warmed water for me to shower with, and then sent me to bed with this:
What?I always drink garlic syrup for my chesty cough.Don’t you?
Hello 
I knew living with Antonia would rub off on you – soon you will know more people in Belize than most who live there!
Which flavors of icecream did you try & Did you eat all of that you were holding? (Might be time to run thru the coconut trees again!)
How did the garlic coughsyrup taste & did it work?
Brooke, I just love reading your blog — wish all #14 were with you!
Suzanne
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that monkey is the cutest.
that fruit looks like a venus fly trap, or something.
and i used to gargle salt water for a sore throat.
miss you.
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Please bring that little monkey home to me!
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Hey Brooke, So happy to hear you are feeling at home in Belize,spiders and all.You look like you are getting a little thin. Glad you are feeling better-everyone knows garlic syrup works miracles. Love ya, Jennifer
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