Every P-day we are trying to find some adventure to go on. This last week we went to the Botanical Gardens of Santiago. We really weren't expecting much because there has been a 40 year drought on these islands but we were pleasantly surprised. The garden was really quiet and quaint.
Though it may not seem like much to you, that is a lot of vegetation considering this is what surrounds it - a near desert island.
And while out there we found the lettuce farms. I was wondering why the lettuce - which is always leaf lettuce - always came with the roots still attached. It is because they grow it in water - long thin water tanks. So that solved that mystery for me.
Then another mystery was solved. On the way home, Elder Mathews decided to take a new route home. (We got a little lost - rolling my eyes here - but we made it home safely)We had always been told that you could see Fogo, the volcanic island just to the west of us, from this island. We have driven all over this island and have never been able to see it. But this time we did - on some far off the beaten path road.
You have to look carefully but that shadow in the sky is Fogo, the second largest mountain in Africa.
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