Cuba Day 4 - Monday September 3, 2012
The 2 biggest draws of this day were Remedios & the beach.  We also visited a printing press, a sugar cane processing plantation/museum and we saw some trains.  We were to ride a steam train - but it was broke down!

Remedios specifically because of the visit to the home of the artist where many of us spent lots of cash.  His gallery was a part of his home. We were able to meet the actual artist of our work and he signed our paintings.  Coincidentally, his wife was our server at the resort.  Her name is Maidelis (sp?).  For the life of me I can't remember his name.  His art is signed C Mass.
Of interesting note was the fact that his medium for some of his works is made up of coffee beans and dirt.  Brownish and reddish dirt.  Really beautiful.

Like many things in Cuba, these machines are OLD and they are still in working order.

I bought this piece after being egged on by my 3 amigas Meghann, Marsha & Mitzi.
I was drawn to the piece because it reminds me of how the architecture on the island is somewhat in shambles, but you know there is something great underneath and if you restored it, it would be magnificent.

I think Marsha bought this piece.  His paintings of Cuban people were phenomenal.

Here is Marsh with the artist (after I coerced her).

Here I am with my piece.  In the background is Tomas, one of our fellow travelers.  He is a Cubano.
Also in the pic is Israel, he was a tour guide on one of the other busses.  I'm sure he was adequate! :)

Here are the 2 types of dirt and coffee beans the artist uses.

This was a piece he was commissioned to create.  Not my thing... but it's a chandelier made out of bone. 

We enjoyed a band that played in the town centers open gazebo.  They were great.  I have some video to accompany if I can get it to load!

Jorge - first rate although he never got top billing - he was great.

This is no longer a working sugar cane mill, but rather a museum.  It takes you through the history of how  sugar cane was originally harvested (people & animal slave labor) to now by machine labor.

Well look at what we found in Cuba.  A machine in the sugar cane mill made in LOUISVILLE, KY.

Michael and Paula moving the good old hand cart. 

Another interesting find - a machine made up the road in Indianapolis, IN.

Another great pic of Yovani.

As a former catholic, I've been to many cathedrals.  I truly don't recall ever seeing the Christ entombed like this.

It was funny to see Meghann and Marsha with their legs crossed the same way and shaking them to the same beat.
Ok... maybe it was just funny to me.

We didn't get to spend nearly enough time here.