Monday, February 16, 2009

Selecting Opals

How lucky we were today to accompany our friends, Bill and Lisa, to the opal dealer. Bill and Lisa are jewelry designers. They have been choosing opals from Hector for years. We drove way out into the country where the mines are.


After the opals were chosen and s0me trading done, ( B and L bring lots of items from the United States for them), we were invited to a delicious meal. The conclusion was a giant papaya that Hector peeled and offered us.
This beautiful opal set in sterling fit perfectly on my middle finger so T bought it for me for 200 pesos, fourteen U.S. dollars.

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