Passion Fruit and Famous People

Today Ivan's mom stopped by to bring us some curtains to see if we liked any of them. We ended up running some errands with her. We went to a fruit stand and I got some passion fruit! It was much different then I thought it would be, on the outside it looked super ripe, almost rotten. But the guy cut it open and let me taste some. It has all these little seeds covered in slimy, sweet stuff. Ivan's mom told me how to make juice with it, so I will have to let you know how it turns out. Its weird though, I thought you could eat it, I guess it is too delicious that if you could just eat it like an apple then that is all anyone would ever eat. I find many tropical fruits are very difficult to get into an edible form.

While we were on the way to another market to find stuffing for Thanksgiving, we came across a small march. It was a march organized by a church group who were against the recent elections. It was nice to see a peaceful march. I guess there were no Sandinistas there throwing rocks because it was small and organized by the church. Plus the Sandinistas already had their huge celebration on Friday, with fireworks and even an appearance by Ortega and his witchy wife!

Anyway, Eduardo Montealegre (the guy who lost for mayor) was in the march, and Ivan and his mom waved to him in support, and he waved back. There was also a political TV show host (who the Sandinistas forced off the air) marching. So it was kinda cool to see that march and those people in person. Then in the market we saw another TV show host, the show he hosts is called Esta Noche (Tonight) and it is kind of a Chronicle-like show, lately it has been mostly politics, but it also has had nice stories that aren't big news, but are nice public interest stories.