I've been holding out to blog until after our doctor's appointment but now I can catch you up on life here. God has been very gracious the last few weeks - almost no rain! That is extremely uncharacteristic for October in Costa Rica which is usually their rainiest month of the year. We've spent lots of time at the park which is good for the kids and almost always a good opportunity for us to practice our Spanish. Quite a few Costa Ricans speak at least some English so sometimes we have to talk them into using Spanish with us. We've even met a lady from Georgia there! Here are snapshots of the last few weeks:
We visited a local Children's Museum that had a Star Wars exhibit going on - very exciting for my kids:)
They did the best face painting I've ever seen.
Here's the finished product - they're sitting on teeth inside a mouth.
This past weekend we took a little excursion outside of the city to an amazing beach. We went on a little nature walk to the beach and discovered this sloth hanging out. Kind of nasty little animals!
We had to be rather on-gaurd there as there were an incredible number of rather aggressive monkeys and raccoons that weren't afraid to take food from a child! The little ones spent a long time on this sand castle.
The big ones spent a lot of time climbing and looking for crabs on rocks like this one.
The water and waves were amazing! Costa Rica has lots of riptides. Every now and then the lifeguards would come out and tell everyone to move down a little - we were thankful they were so attentive.
Hannah got stung by something that got lost in the translation - best I could get was that it was not an animal but a jelly-like substance that can come in with the waves. One snow cone and 15 minutes later she was back in the game.
Trips around here can be rather amusing - we had 8 adults and 15 kids under 10 on a bus winding through mountains for 4 hours. Abe threw up a few times on the way home:( The accommodations weren't anything to write home about but the food was good and the service was great and we're thankful to have such an opportunity to get out into the culture! This week will be Spiritual Empahsis Week at school - kids will have VBS and adults will have a chapel each day during our break and another session in the afternoon. Pray for this time - If we come out of this year fluent in Spanish but no further in our walk with Christ we will have gained nothing.
