Gira Lua

Dinner with Friends

Dra Liliane, Sr. Alves, Enfermeira Vanusa

We have been developing a project with the Red Cross in Mosteiros to provide some blood sugar monitoring meters and strips.  Additional project team members are the director of the local hospital, Dr. Liliane Siva, in the center of the photo, and Sra. Vanusa Timas, a lead nurse pictured on the right.

We are enjoying working with Senor Alves, the local Red Cross president.  He is a man of enthusiasm!  Being president of the Red Cross is a volunteer position just like being a missionary.  Several times we have chanced upon him during the day working for the local water company in the countryside outside of Mosteiros.  He is always smiling!

Approaching Gira Lua

To develop the project we went to Mosteiros to talk to Senhor Alves and his partners at the Mosteiros hospital. The director of the hospital was amazingly capable and it was an excellent meeting.  We are now confident this project is a good idea and we are preparing to submit it.  But the there were more surprises.  After the meeting, Senhor Alves invited us to go to lunch with him.  So, with him in the car, he directed us to the small village of Pai Antonio in the the mountains outside of Mosteiros.  We parked the car and made a five minute walk out onto a cliff to the Restaurant and Pensão, Gira Lua.

Overlooking the Sea

Sr. Alves Takes a Look

Wow what a place.  As the smell of good food came to us inside, the hostess, a Cuban medical expat, invited us to go up to the roof and take a look.

The roof was like something out of Lord of the Rings, it was a jet-way into the atmosphere.

Lucindo and Elder Biven at Gira Lua

Elder Biven and Lucindo take a look.

Sr. Alves with Casa Biven at Gira Lua

Group photo at the end of the drop off.  Of course!  You can see I was ready to find a less exposed place to sit.......
















The meal was excellent, tuna, beef, vegetables, beans and rice, with a marinade of peppers...... food for hungry people.  For dessert there was candied papaya and Fogo goat cheese.  Famous stuff, and so good.  What a nice interlude from our humanitarian work life, to enjoy the island for the food and the view.  It was an amazing experience we will never forget.