A day with the Queen

This past Saturday I went to a birthday party for the Queen of England! A Costa Rican friend of mine, Dora, called me on Friday and asked if I wanted to go with her to a party for her for the queen. Dora's daughter works at the British Embassy here in Costa Rica. I said sure I'll go. So we made a plan to leave around 10:30 am on Saturday. Karen, a friend of mine, and I went to Dora's house. Then we took a bus to downtown San Jose. From there we took another bus to the area where the embassy is located. We arrived at the party around 11:45 or so.

The party was at the house of the ambassador for the British Embassy. It had a large yard. One of the things I most enjoyed was taking my shoes off and rubbing my feet in the thick grass in the yard. It was so nice. Each year the British celebrate the queen's birthday kind of like we do for the July 4th. Since England doesn't have a independence day to celebrate they celebrate the queen's birthday each year. This year she turned 82, I believe.

There were games, entertainment and good food. All the money that was raised was going to help some schools that were in the area of the earthquake which happened a few months ago. There were alot of people there, British, Americans, Costa Ricans and other nationalities. I thought how interesting this American girl in Costa Rica celebrating the birthday of somebody from England.

As I was walking around I thought these are the people group who I'll be working with in Guatemala City. The only thing missing at the birthday celebration was a church booth or Christian influence. It was alot of fun. It was definitely a cultural day as I enjoyed the day with my Costa Rican friend and her two daughters and grandson. I had fun playing with the 10 year old grandson. I think they were all surprised when I started chasing the grandson around the yard.