Letter from Michaela

Dear Friends and Family,

How is every one? Good…good. All of us here are fine too.

I’m very excited that Pastor Ken is coming down. While he is here, he is going to baptize me in James and Paula’s stream. My mother say’s that she hasn’t written a lot about them so I will….

The first time we went to their house was about two weeks ago. It is so beautiful!!! The inside looks like one of those things that you would see at hotel lodge in the Caribbean. They have huge colorful wall hangings on their walls (in a couple of weeks you can see them because we took pictures of them and are going to put them on our website.) They got them when they went to Costa Rica for a year. Any way, all their furniture is wicker with Hawaiian print upholstery. They also have a big wooden cabinet filled with tons of clay art that James has collected. The entire floor is wood. And it has a flushing toilet!!!! They have a big kitchen with an island in the middle and they have a mahogany table that James built. It has 4 bedrooms and a nice front and back porch.

Their yard is fenced in with barbed wire. They also have a guard that looks after the house when they leave. The guard has 2 dogs Campion the boy (or Champion in English.) And the girl dog I named Jules. After lunch James led us to a path that leads to the swimming hole. Only dad and I swam. It was very beautiful. O.K.,enough of that.

The past 2 weeks have been Holy Week for the Catholic Church, so there has been a big fair of sorts on the town’s soccer field. One Sunday after church we decided to have lunch there. We ordered 2 plates of rice. The brought out two humongous plates of fried rice with peppers, onion, carrot, chicken, and beef all sautéed into it, with bread on the side- all for the price of $3.00.

Today we went to the ocean with the Grigg’s. It was a lot of fun, Bethany, Gabrielle mom, dad and I went body surfing and the waves were pretty rough. After about an hour of that we went back to where the Griggs had decided to have lunch and fish. We spent the next hour just chatting and long.) We did see a lot²fishing (we only caught one fish that was about 3 of jellyfish and on the beach and some one had just gone shark hunting so there were heads and tails and bones all about. When we got back home we all had really bad sunburns. I just woke up from a 3 hour nap Well that’s all for now!!!!

Love Michaela
P.S.- We are all healthy and having loads of fun!!!!!!!!