Scenes From Our Week

Life is always interesting here. So here are a few of the random scenes from our past week.

Chaos on the Road

On Monday afternoon, I was at home and began to hear quite the uproar outside. So I strolled to the edge of the yard and looked down at the road about 25 feet below and had a most amusing time watching the action. Right across the road from us, a gigantic Canadian-backed resort is being built. They are busily filling in acres and acres of swamp one truck load at a time, the process of which pulverizes the road and creates massive dust clouds that envelop our house for about 10 hours a day. Needless to say, we are less than impressed with the project. Anway, Monday afternoon's uproar occured right at quitting time when an empty delivery truck headed back to La Ceiba happened to stop to let a few of the construction workers on to give them a ride back to Balfate (about 3 miles away). But then, not wanting to leave anyone out, every person and their bike who could possible be jammed onto the truck were loaded. As some were loading up, others were sprinting down the road in fear of missing the ride home, and everyone was cheering and jeering the process along. From my vantage point, it looked like ants converging on and preparing to haul away a piece of food or something dead (also a common Central American occurence).

Pastelito Night

On Wednesday night, we went out for pastelitos with our friends Mario and Marcia. Paselitos are tortillas filled with meat and rice, folded in half, and fried. They are salty and wonderful. Anyway, we rode our respective family motos and had a swelll time. Below are Fabian, Manuel, Mario, and Marcia.

Rio Viejo

On Saturday, we took a road trip to the town of Rio Viejo, which is about 20 miles south of La Ceiba. A friend of ours who is currently visiting and working at the hospital for a couple weeks spent a year there 6 or 7 years ago working at a Christian high school. So we got to tour the school, Instituto del Rey, and visit the people who run it. We had actually met them at the grocery store in Ceiba quite awhile back....we run into alot of other gringo missionaries at the grocery store. Aside from getting to see a really great school, we were impressed by the enormous flea population in Rio Viejo. It is several thousand feet up in elevation and much cooler than where we live. Apparently fleas thrive in the cooler climates! Anyway, it was raining too hard to take pictures of the school (or the fleas), but the photos below are from the drive up. The view was amazing!

Well, I think that's it for this week's random vignettes. Who knows what next week may have in store??!!