My business meetings have ended now, after 3 days of all day meetings. Things went very well with the meetings and we got a lot accomplished.

The hardest part of it all was not being able to help Bari with Noah, and to not be able to be with them while they went out and about in town. But I did what I could after the meetings ended each day, and got to spend a little time with them during lunch each day.

Yesterday, for lunch, the whole Joomlashack team went up to a coffee plantation to have lunch at the restaurant there and to take a tour of the coffee fields and the processing plant. It was pretty interesting, actually. I had no idea that coffee was so work intensive to create.

Unfortunately, Bari and Noah couldn’t come with us because it happened right at his afternoon nap time. Noah would have been bored out of his mind anyway.

Now that the meetings are over, the three of us have two more days here in Antigua before we head home, and I’m looking forward to having a little more time to relax before getting back home, where I’ll jump back in to another month or two of 65 hour work weeks while I finish up some remaining websites in addition to working full time for Joomlashack.

Bari wanted to add some things from her adventures with Noah during the past few days while I’ve been in meetings:

Yesterday, Noah and I ventured out into town (him on my back for part of the time) and did some shopping in the market, sipping mochas/drinking mango and eating pasta at a cafe and then went swimming in the pool of a big hotel.

Noah had a great time! Today we visited an old friend’s relatives who retired in antigua and we got to see inside the courtyards and home (which is very cool because everything is behind walls here). And both days noah has been playing with the guatemalan people that work at the bed and breakfast and helping them sweep and rake. He is very serious about his work and in helping everyone. They love him and love to play with him all of the time – soccer and hide n seek.

Noah keeps trying to say ‘hola’ (spanish for “hello”) as we are walking in town because everyone is so friendly and he is saying ‘ohee’, but he is trying to say it over and over in all different ways…it is very cute, can’t get it yet, but trying so hard…and in general, lots of new words this trip and now 2 words at a time

Here’s a link to some pics from the past few days:

Click here to see the Flickr photo set with the latest pics and photo comments on top.

Best to you all,
Forest, Bari, and Noah