Musica y Cafe

Today we went to the museums of Mayan Music and of Coffee which are both housed in a beautifully landscaped complex outside of Antigua. I immediately recognized the smell of coffee roasting. My first house in college was across the street from a coffee shop, Muddy Waters, which roasted their own coffee every morning. However at the time I didn`t know the smell and I just thought they burnt a lot of toast. Becuse that is what it smells like. Burnt toast. However it is also now very nostalgic for me and so as we walked into the museum, for a moment I was ninteen again and walking to school on a foggy Arcata morning. Sense memory is funny like that.

Anyway- my ability to repeat back to you what I learned is minimal as most of it was in Spanish. However, the main gist of it was that the Mayans had a lot of instruments made from everything from porcilin and wood, to tortise shells and jaws of deer. Here are some cool shots from the music museum. The coffee museum was more boring and was mostly short videos- which do not make for good pictures. However, it ended with a free cup of coffee so that was kind of awesome. And delicous. Plus, I think most of us know how coffee is made so I don`t feel like I am really leaving you in the dark or anything.