Tracey y Jeramias, Gracias for your post. The food is good here and we at first loved the novelty of eating all the time at a restaurant. But Kev and I broke down and went to a automercado (might mean a super market) , we originaly thought it was for cars. It looked like any market you would see in USA but the fruits and vegtable isle was awsome. The largest green onions I have ever saw. Kevin and I took a picture I will try to get him to download the picture for you all to see. The little girl watching us had such a funny puzzled look on her face! The beer here is cheep! called Imperial and about 2.00 for a 6 pack. so we got salami and cheese and fresh bread and carried it all in bags on the bus back to the Hotel. You dont want to buy too much cause you have to pack it a long way. We had made arrangements with a sister to meet there as her house is near and we are assigned to that book study. We waited for an hour in the rain..( we had umbrellas) but she didnt show up. and there is no addresses. or steet names. We think she might have had something happen and forgot or we got the wrong place , we will find out on Friday what happend. I was actually a little sad as this was our oportunity for the last bookstudy in Revelation. but what a study it was personally! There is not a doubt that we are being prepared for exciting times ahead.
We had a lovely dinner at the P>O> and his wifes house. I am avoiding useing names as this is on the internet and dont know how they feel about it. Also the brother who works at bethel as the lawyer was there too. LOvely home they are using and the american sister made beautiful stew and bread. It was extreamly nice. The brother from bethel had me laughing most of the time. He is lebonese/costarican and reminds me of Steve Johnsons sense of humor. ( a little bit like Sienfield)
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Trish and Christiansens dont wait for my kids to come and visit! We are bugging them constantly and they are holding firm on April 1st of 2009. That goes for the rest of you too. If we plan it right this is a hotel and can hold more that one family at a time!
Sorry about not writitng personal emails but honestly this ding dong system they have for internet is very unreliable. Just as soon as you start typing it will go down... for DAYS! Kevin gets highly frustrated, as this is his major means for updateing the web and IT stuff he does here. So when he starts complaining I have been finding cleaning, fixit and auditing projects for him.(smile)
My boss just gave me the responsiblilty for the horses here. One threw a shoe so I have a potential shoer what is the word for that? Cobler? sounds like a desert, I will have to look it up in spanish. It took me 6 hours of hard labor to make one translated sheet of instructions for the crew here. Comunication is still labored. But like the scripture says "love covers a multitude of sins" I would so be in trouble with all of you if you could here how I am still speaking handicaped spanish. Oh well.
We do not have any bible studies yet. We went from one search, find and census in spanish in Radcliff, to the same here in English. I do have a call that is a potential. Young girl in her 20's. So if anything changes I will quickly tell you.
This weekend Kevin has a surprise planed for me. It is our 25th and what better way to celebrate than on vacation in costa rica! He wont tell me what it is but this is the INTEL I have gathered so far. We get to use the bosses toyotal pick-up. We ge to stay in a different hotel. That it can take 8 hours to get there *( I think he said that to throw me off) I am suposed to bring the whale suit ( others call it a bathing suit) and we are going to stop and get food suplies before hand. We have friday -monday off. Meeting is Friday, so we will be there for that, Kevin has his first official talk, speach quality I think. Then the rest will be a surprise and I will tell you more next week.
We finally took the time to walk down to the falls. and it was beautiful! Gorgeous and full just like you see in pictures of Haawaaii or here. There is a pool at the bottom of it you can jump into or go under the falling water, incredibly natural and presurved in proper habitat. You have to see it to believe it. We are maybe 2 blocks as the crow flys above it and I never heard it! We have pictures of that too, I will try to get kevin to put it on the blog if not, then the other web sight he set up for pictures will have it...dont remember the address, and it is only 4 am and he is snoring away like an oso! ( bear) I have insomnia alot of the time, but it doesnt seem to be effecting me too bad. Just part of the adjustment. I usully wake by 5 am and am ready for bed again by 9.
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We have had offers of sending care packages, but we are hesitant to process this. We have a new mailing address to recieve and a different to send. Something like DSL I dont understand it Kevin will have to let you know. Everyone here says it is very unlikely you will recieve what is sent. We have been telling those with too much cash on them to send it to the girls and they are in charge of our checking account. we use this in costa rica as it is easyer to use the atm than figure out colones ourselves and it gives a acurate exchange rate. We really have been living simply. And yes Kevin has his own toothbrush now!
Thank you very much for all the suport you have given us. Mostly the "you can do it" suport. I still dont feel like this is real that in reality it is just a long dream. Maybe I am getting loopy from insomnia...think I will go turn the bear and see if I can get some zzzz's my self.
Guess What? I love you just a little bit. Thanks for reading and noting the blog love to all the parents, kids , family , and friends.
Katalena,