My miss list

As my time here in Mindo wraps up (my how time flies!) I've been making a mental list of all of the things that I love, and therefore will miss, about this precious little town and I thought I'd put them in blog form...

1. The way the dirt road to the farm sparkles with fireflies on dark nights
2. Personal cheese pizzas for $1.20
3. Drinking Pilsener and people watching outside of our favorite pizzeria
4. Knowing almost all of the kids in town and having them swarm around me as I walk through town
5. The way that Tessa, the only dog I've ever loved, follows me into town and sits at my feet at the internet cafe
6. The coco and chocolate ice creams that we eat every single day!!
7. Being friends with a bunch of Mindeños and not feeling like just another gringa tourist.
8. Watching the stray dogs in town and trying to guess whose mom/dad/brother/sister/cousin they are, especially of the dogs on the farm
9. Sitting outside on the deck outside my bedroom at night and listening to Death Cab's "Passenger Seat" and dreaming about the Pacific NW
10. Family breakfasts
11. Thursday night Cuban Song dance classes with the chicos
12. Vegetarian sandwiches and brownies at Chocolarte
13. Sore muscles and tan arms from mornings spent shoveling, hauling and sowing
14. Yelling curse words in Spanish and making up translations for favorite English curse words
15. Eating delicious, vegetarian, home made food after working all morning and getting really hungry and drinking lemonade made from the lime trees in the yard
16. Bathing in the river
17. Conversations that revolve around different types of hummingbirds, butterflies, medicinal plants and birds (including, of course, demonstrations of their birdcalls)
18. When Cristina speaks English :)
19. Drooling over the artesanias in town, and buying too much
20. My sweet little black and white bodyguard/ shadow that follows me from the farm and around town
21. My cockroach friend that lives on the toothbrooth shelf in the bathroom
22. The fact that you can build any and everything from the guadua bambu that grows everywhere
23. How all the stray dogs in downtown (and by downtown I mean the one main street of Mindo) look like they have the same wiener dog dog with different mutt stray dog moms


I know I'll think of more, but for now.... :))))

Wuv wus