For breakfast this morning, we made breakfast jacks for our children. Of all the things our third child misses the most from the states, it isn’t friends, or family, it is Jack in the Box’s breakfast Jack. So we bought hamburger buns at the local grocery store, fried ham, eggs and put a slice of cheese on the buns. Our third child noticed the last time when we didn’t fry the ham.
After breakfast, we got in the car and drove to meet out housekeeper and her husband to go on a hike. The following are photos of the hike. We hiked up a large hill, overlooking the city center. There were two crosses, one on top of one hill, and one on top of another a couple hundred yards away. I took a really great photo of our kids next to the other cross that was a couple hundred yards away from the first one, and that will be the final photo down below.
There is a story about the first cross, a couple guys hiked up the hill many years ago and were accosted by robbers. Both men had their stomachs slit open. One of the men hiked down the hill while holding his intestines and somehow survived. He made a promise to God to build a cross, he also planted trees in the ground. The ground is so hard up there, it’s essentially concrete. The entire hill and mountain range is almost all quartz crystal.
With the area covered in quartz crystal, when I noticed all the quartz, I was trying to see where the mine was. I know that with quartz veins, comes gold. It’s called a lode, and with enough quartz veins running through a mountain, they call it a “mother lode”.
After our hike, we got home and watched the movie Short Circuit. The kids kind of liked it. It’s 2020, and PG movies from the 1980s are NOT PG movies in 2020. Lots of swearing, and adult themed innuendos. Luckily it went right over the kids heads.
Our Family Adventure 