Nicaragua

Tica Bus is a bus line that goes from Costa Rica to Nicaragua. We had a nice ride over and a pretty easy border crossing. We were only concerned with the passport collecting method (throw them all in a plastic bag) what!? Also spraying the inside of the bus was a little concerning haha. 

Waiting for the bug spray to clear out of the bus at the border before getting on again.

snooze time!

Everyone zonked out - I was so concerned with this man holding this newborn baby. Every time he would snooze off, it looked like the baby was going to fall out of his arms! 

A volcano once we entered into Nicaragua

Convention grounds at Gerald & Angela's home in Granada

A few leaving for the baptism. The mother of some of the friends here in Costa Rica was baptized.

We had such wonderful meetings, such a nice privilege!

Headed to the bus station

Angela & I

Love these colored houses! Super fun :)

Someday we will have a house with a blue door :)

Crossing the border back into Costa Rica on our way back. No problems! 

Chilamate Parade

Celebrating the Independence Day - we went into Puerto Viejo to see the parade. Eladio's brother Eric played the drum with his school

These kids were so hot because they were marching for a long time! The black clothing didn't help either. This is Eric playing the drum

A little of daily life

This is what laundry day looks like around here. If we wait to long, we run out of line to dry :) We actually have a dryer now so we only use the line until the rain comes then we use the dryer. 

 My birthday card from my in-laws! It was super exciting because it was our first letter! This post office is huge, so many post office boxes, its like a maze to find ours! Thanks Herb & Glenda for the little piece from home and remembering me on my birthday! 

Some more pictures of these sweet little kitties we get to play with when we go to Chilamate :) Baby Friday and Cruzo are the little blacks ones and mama cat on the left is Chirouly

So I think we spent almost an hour trying to figure out the cuñada and concuñada thing. Basically they have a different name for a sister-in-law who married your spouses sibling and another name for the spouses sibling. It's still kind of confusing but this chart was helpful. Sorry Lane, you became Liz for a second so we could figure out what you would be as a "sister" to Landon. haha funny times! 

Coffee Tree Fertilizing

Today we got to help out with fertilizing the coffee trees. Marlene has 3 farms that needed fertilizing so we went with Wilbur and picked up the fertilizer in the van and then headed out to the farm. It was so beautiful! We helped finish the remaining 2 farms today. It can get pretty heavy carrying that all around! 

Bridges, Lizards, & Birthdays

Hey! Sorry I haven't updated the blog in a while! We have been working on a few online projects so I have been neglecting updating the blog but here is a little of what's been going on. 

Huge iguana and his wife came to watch us eat breakfast while we were in Quepos at Hotel Verde Mar. Quite a thing, and Omar the cook gave us a show by feeding them some lettuce. Really cool! But I did keep my distance :)

A few weeks ago we were in Chilamate leaving on a Monday morning after having a wonderful weekend with Rosmy, Eladio, Don Simion & Dona Beatrize. When we got to the bus station we saw the only route we could take (without waiting almost 2 hours) was one that went on the route Vara Blancas. That was fine with us since we eventually would get to San Jose. This route passes by the La Paz waterfalls which we visited while we were here in April. It's a really pretty place. However, probably 2-3 hours after we passed by the waterfall on the bus, the waterfall flooded and collapsed the bridge! (yes, the one we just passed by on 2-3 hours before) We couldn't believe how lucky we were to not have been on it while it collapsed but also to be past before it collapsed or it would have been a huge delay! It was pretty big news around here! Scary!

Happy 5th Birthday to Siany! 

Some quick peanut butter "frosting" had this cake looking pretty cute :) 

Pedro, Rosa, & Siany

Last weekend we were in La Fortuna to spend some time with Marjorie one of our church friends. Her husband works in geothermal electricity near one of the volcanoes. He gave us a small tour of the volcanoes and the area where he works. The water was boiling hot coming out of the ground! Amazing! 

Heiner, Marjorie, and us :)