After we took the food and stuff to the people yesterday, we stopped in Ojojona to do some shopping. Ojojona is sort of famous around here for being the place where they make all kind of pottery stuff. They have a ton of it there. It’s pretty and is dirt cheap. I’ve mentioned before that anything for which a major part of the price is labor is likely to be cheap here. For example, mine and Brayden’s haircuts cost $3.75 each.
I went into one of the shops and picked up one of the little pitchers to look at it. I turned it upside down (to see if the price was on the bottom – which is really hilarious because none of this stuff is priced). There was a little top to the pitcher that I hadn’t noticed and when I turned it upside down, it fell on the ground and broke. So I’m thinking “Oh, great. Now I’ve got to buy this.” When I asked how much, it was 150 lempiras (which works out to be $7.50) for the set of three. See pic below.
Needless to say we thought that we pretty cool. We bought a few sets. I think the most expensive set of three was $9. Ashlyn bought a little set for $3 (the purple set below). Ashlyn kept telling me she would pay me back when we got back to the states and I kept saying "Baby, don't worry about it. It's not enough to worry about." When you see what they are making and hear 60 limps, it seems like it's more than it is. It's hard to believe that it costs $3. We would have loved to have bought more. Unfornuately, although it is cheap, it weighs a ton and we have weigh limits on the bags that we can bring back to the US.
It's a very poor place though. Many of the shops were not able to make change for a $25 bill.
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