Since it's tough to get volunteers together in one place (other than San Salvador), we had to plan this one for a full month before my actual departure date. On a previous visit to Perquin, I decided that we should all meet up sometime to play paintball. I mean, after two years of being shot at (not really) it would be very liberating to shoot back, even with just paint.
Krystal works with the guy that runs the paintball place in Perquin, so she made some calls and got us a group reservation. She even reserved a great cabin in the woods at my favorite place, the Lenka. Then we got our fijate que (Spanish polite for "I'm not actually going to do for you what I told you I would do) the night before the big day, when paintball guy called and canceled. Krystal worked her magic, made some phone calls and instead reserved a micro bus to take us all to the rio sapo for some swimming and cerveza sipping. We all decided that it was a much better, less work intensive way to save the day.
I was able to spend a beautiful day together with my favorite people, celebrate two years of Peace Corps service and relax. Below are pictures from what turned out to be the first of two river-themed going away parties:
(Ros bought Erica and I camo shirts to wear paint balling. We wore them swimming instead.)
(This should probably be some kind of Peace Corps promotional photo. Hanging out at the cabin with the dog before making our way to the river.)
(Life is better in the river.)
(Swimming can be tiring.)
(The Rio Sapo is the cleanest river in El Salvador, and beautiful!)
(I got lucky and made some pretty great friends in the last two years.)
(Relaxed.)
(We're probably talking about how we are going to hang a hammock in our apartment in DC.)
(Awesome people. Awesome times.)
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