Annette's Special Guest, Mr. Heriberto Ibarra

I never knew the children could eat so many chips in one sitting until we met Mr. Ibarra!  Annette's daddy is the manager of the El Cerro Grande restaurants here in Myrtle Beach.  There are 5 locations of the restaurant but he mainly works at the Conway location.  Mr. Ibarra was born in Mexico and his family had a farm where they grew things like corn, beans, limes, peaches, and oranges.  He has 4 sisters and 1 brother and some of them live here in the US and some of them still live in  Mexico.  We really enjoyed hearing about some of the Mexican traditions like riding a horse on the Mexican Independence Day.  The Ibarra family has a house in Mexico that they go live in when they are staying there.  Heriberto came to the US when he was 17 years old and learned much of what he knows about restaurants from his uncle.  He met Annette's mom when he was 15 years old and we enjoyed seeing pictures of their wedding and when Annette was born.  Probably the thing we all liked the best was sampling the chips, salsa, and queso cheese dip that Mr. Ibarra made for our class.  We ate, and ate, and ate!  We would really like to take a trip to visit Mr. Ibarra at his restaurant in Conway if we can work it out!  It would be fun for us to see how the whole restaurant works and we would love to eat more CHIPS!