El Salvador Day #10

Day #10 Saturday, January 12, 2013

Today was another field trip day! We got up and drove over to San Salvador to the Romero Museum. If you don't know anything about Oscar Romero click here >  Romero info

We were able to walk through his house and see photos of when he was shot and killed along with photos of the funeral. They had his wardrobe from when he got shot preserved and hanging behind glass, the blood stains still prominent. They had saved everything of his that there was, from his rosary to his toothpaste in the bathroom. It was a very interesting place to see. Informative, yet haunting at the same time. 

After leaving his house, we walked back up to the chapel where he was shot. A service had just finished and people were leaving the chapel as we walked inside. We all spent a few minutes admiring the building and taking in the many things that we had just seen and heard about Romero and this chapel.

We had plans to take a tour of the University of Central America and learn more about the killing of the nuns that happened there around the same time Romero was killed. However, the school had just closed when we arrived. So, we spent a few minutes looking at the chapel there and then left.

We had Pizza Hut for lunch today! SO good. Praise the Lord. The food here has been awesome, but we were all missing American food so this was the perfect lunch.

After our lunch, Lingenfelter went with Jonathan (one of the guys that works with Brian at the church office) to pick up his wife and kids at the airport and the rest of us went to El Boquerón National Park to see a volcano there. We climbed about 10 minutes on a trail until we got to the top of the mouth. El Boquerón literally means wide mouth. The crater from this volcano was HUGE! I will post pictures later when I get all of the pics from the trip together. We spent some time taking pictures at each of the lookout sites and then headed back down. I decided to lead our group down the "Extreme Exit" rather than the main path, hoping for some adventure. Turns out the only difference is that the steps are steeper...whoopie. After we got back down, we loaded back up in the van, drove back down the volcano and headed to our hotel for the night. At the hotel, we found the Lingenfelters! Alvin had picked up his wife Lindsay, his son Amos, and his daughter Layton. We watched as the kids played in the pool for a while as we enjoyed a time of just relaxing. 

We went to Los Cebollinas for dinner and were "serenaded" VERY loudly by a Mariachi band. They were playing so loud that it was pointless to try to have a conversation while they were playing. We headed next door to Pops for some ice cream and then went back to our hotel. Brittany, Bailey, Olivia and I stayed up for a while chatting, enjoying our mini-vaca, and getting scared by the air vents then we finally headed to bed.