Day 3 (last night)

Day 3 (night)

So we had done it all in 2 days, what was there left to do ?

Craig decided on the last nite we would eat in a fancy restaurant overlooking the water….the Harbor of Cuba…a place he has spotted several times on our taxi rides…

So we showered and dressed up…thank goodness there was a late afternoon shower and the air was a little cooler…

Austin had decided during this break to pass out the remaining of his tshirts (mainly university and basketball tshirts)….he had spotted a playground nearby with children playing soccer….but one block away from this playground…a military guy in his 30’s asked if he could have a shirt…before we knew it there were young men and women dressed in green uniforms all running towards Austin…it was a feeding frenzy

Sadly the shirts never made it to the children, but then most of them were XL and XXL sizes….

On our walk to the restaurant that nite Austin gave Craig’s 15 yr old a couple of baseballs to share with the kids on the street…luck would have it…we found two boys throwing a ball made out of tape….their eyes grew wide when they saw those REAL baseballs…Austin also gave another group of boys a soccer ball…

We are also stopped by a man who says he heard we needed a taxi for the airport on Sunday morning…it seems that our driver who took us to the beach, did NOT have the right kind of permit to drive people to “Terminal DOS”…the terminal for flights back to Miami….interesting huh

We make an appointment for 7 am since we have to be at the airport by 8 am for our 10 am flight back to the USA.

At the restaurant we had Pallela (a dish with rice and many different types of seafood)….it had some of the biggest Shrimps I have ever seen….we had a feast….this time the fancy restaurant charged us $5 for a basket of bread….and the services was very slow (we had two baskets of bread)…beers were $2 and bottle water $3…we did not get out of this one cheap….

But we did see the cannon go off at 9 pm from the fort across the Harbor…it was pretty neat…we saw the flash of fire way before we heard the BOOM…

Then we went for our last walk of old Havana….i still had not shown Craig La Cathedral de Havana where I hope the Gaston Family reunion will have a family Mass in the summer of 2014.

But as we walked down the streets of old Havana, we were getting further and further AWAY from the convent/hotel…