Rainy day and pictures of our new "home"

Kim:

Rainy afternoon. It was a surprise to us, that during the dry season it doesn’t rain that much. We had maybe a whole week without rain and then 2 downpours today. No way to tell by looking at the weather either, all the days look the same! Just got to live it – what a motto right?

Things have improved, even though there are still tears about missing home and schemes to go live with grandparents.  Lucia had a playmate this week who leaves day after tomorrow and Marino is playing with the grandson of his fishing buddy, a local boy named Ozney (sp?) who is also 10 years old. A big relief for the kids to not have A#1 playmate be the parents (we get so boring!).                 

Dan has a stomach thing now and Marino got stung by an unknown thing in the ocean, so they are both napping. Lucia is reading in the hammock on our covered porch with our “adopted” dog Lassie at her feet. I am “blogging” – ha! I wanted to share some pics of the beautiful and amazing place we are staying in - our house and surroundings. 

We see sea turtles almost every day snorkeling and are still gathering mangos from right in front of our house. The bugs have not ceased, but our reactions seem to be calming down. Life is better at the beach! Early bedtimes for all and up with the sun between 5-6am. Dan still has 2 weeks until school starts and I’ll start my work when the kids start school. Next week we will be starting to volunteer to read to kids in a public school here once a week in English and we have plans to visit the butterfly garden too.

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