Brought to you by the entire team!!!!
First off, we'd like to tell you all about how we had a flood in the bathrooms. In this country, you are not supposed to flush toilet paper; but we had a mishap in one of the toilets and it overflowed all 6 toilets and the water spilled into the common room. Dave was the hero of the night and served as our resident plumber, and used his handy dandy plunger. After we cleaned up, we voted on our MVPs. Tyler and Andrew were voted MVPs because of the relationships they built with the kids. Melissa won Dorcus Award for her inability to speak correct Spanish. Let's just say that was the funniest moment of the day...
This morning we slept in!!! We woke up around 6:30 [8:30 NC time]. Breakfast was at 9, and we had pancakes, eggs, papaya, and melon. Our first meal without rice or beans!! After breakfast, we decided to hike upstream along the creek. We saw many leeches, some on us, some in Andrew's pants, some squirming in the water. Gross!!! We had such a great bonding experience for those 2 hours. The scenery was really neat, seeing all of the trees, frogs, and rocks. We really had to rely on each other to get across some of the rocks. The boys were quite chivalrous in helping the girls across.
Jordan decided to run across the rocks and totally took a swim without meaning to. Payton bruised her rear by slipping on a rock. Andrew, Tyler, and Marissa decided to go swimming in leech infested waters. Kim slipped on a rock and twisted her ankle. The rest of the group stayed mostly dry and went slow across the rocks to ensure they didn't get hurt. Around 1, we ate rice, beans, chicken lasagna, and bread. It was great!!
After lunch, we started our work project. We crossed the creek in front of our cabin and began moving many logs to build a firepit. We dug stairs out of the land and cleared off paths. Then we built a rock bridge that was sturdy enough to cross the creek on. Afterwards, some people went to the blacktop to play futbol, while others showered in the ice cold tundra of the bathroom. Needless to say, it takes your breath away and makes you want to cry. Some actually did. Like Meredith. Meg, Meredith, Lindsey, and Melissa hiked to where the kids stayed while they were here, and watched the sunset. It really puts everything in perspective. You could see the lights from the city way, way, way out across the mountains on one side, and on the other side it was nothing but pastures. Everyone else worked on a top 10 [aka 20] list of our favorite memories so far. It's only Monday, but here are just a few.
1. 29mar... Tyler's seat in the airplane
2. FRIIIIIIJOOOOOLLLLEEESSSSS!!!!!
3. La Negra's Beat
4. Dave's turkey story
5. Katy's Mom's turtle soup
6. Tyler CALLED IT!!!!
7. You can't "ohhhhh" yourself
8. "Estoy caliente...."
9. 100% deet means NOTHING.
10. Cold water equals water conservation
11. Jordan is the most graceful person on the team. She'll teach walking classes later.
12. Dance parties!!
13. Magic coffee pot
14. Jinbo Fan Club
15. You can NEVER have too much rice and beans.
16. 14, 15...................16[JERK.]
17. FACT. 37% of ants are blind. FACT.
18. Microwave Smores
19. Muscle Shirt Monday
20. Learning to salsa!
As we reflected in our devotion last night, we can already feel the impact of this trip on our lives!!! We feel so blessed to have the opportunity to be here with each other... thank you for your thoughts and prayers. We miss everyone at home but we will see you all soon!
5 comments:
It's good to see the smiles and hear the adventures. Hopefully you guys are getting some blisters as well. Somebody should get Tyler's hair braided or cut.
Keep posting as memories fade too fast. It is pretty impressive what you guys are doing.
I vote that Muscle Shirt Monday become a staple theme day, especially around the Fitness department, at all our Y's!!!
Fun times. You guys sound like your having a blast.
First off, NEVER, EVER discace Magic Coffee pot by putting it at #13 on a "Top" list.
My prayers (and jealous thoughts) have been with you guys and gals since Saturday. Continue to do the Lord's work by being His hands and feet and continue to serve and love on those awesome costa rican people.
Dave, i too had muscle shirt Monday yesterday at the branch. Members thought it was a bit weird, but it was in your honor!
Melissa and Kim, are you really there? You both have some how escaped all the pics!
I am going to dinner tonight with Austin, Everett, and SE JOTA! I'm sure all they will talk about is doing the Salsa with La Negra...so tell her they said hi!
KEV-MOOOOOOOOO... nice glove in that creek pic! :-D
CJ, Austin and I were talking about you guys at lunch today... we were jealous as well as hoping that things were going well. and I agree with Nick, did Melissa and Kim REEEEEALLLLY make it to costa rica?
Hey, lay off Melissa! She's in two of the photos so far. Hopefully she's not running off with any dark-skinned Costa Rican men :)
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