Last Sunday morning we had that showing which I talked about in the last update. We haven't heard anything more about it but we are confident we did our best and the place looked as good as it possibly could :)
So that afternoon Joel picked up his cousin Kyle in Belize City. It was great catching up and showing him around the base. Monday they spent the day getting ready for their big fishing trip that night. They and 2 other guys went out to a freshwater lagoon off of our driveway, in the dark, with flashlights and snorkel gear. Yes they are a little crazy ;) But they had a blast and got a bunch of fish.
That night we went to the Kidders going away party at the church - there was lots of food and it was nice to see everyone :)
Wednesday they took a boat out to Tiger Point with some other guys to get the rest of the parts of the tractor they had taken before and took it to Martin and Jane's:
Friday they spent the day getting ready for their big overnight fishing trip with a bunch of guys from the village. They spent the night on a pontoon boat with nothing but a plywood floor. Sounds pretty awesome ;) They caught some nice fish too!
Saturday they got back in the afternoon after having hardly slept (turns out plywood is not so comfy, at least they had the tarp to keep them warm....) They picked up Sage and I and we went out to the fishing lodge and the caretaker took us on an awesome hike up a mountain with some beautiful views. Then we hiked to Vista Cave - it was awesome!
Then we followed him up another mountian in our truck and he took us to White Ridge Farms Resort. It was going to be a healing center and there's all kinds of half finished buildings, it's really beautiful, and it's at the very top of a mountain with awesome views. We had a lot of fun exploring all the buildings and talking about how easy they would be to fix up to live in!
On to Sunday, this was a great day because it was Father's Day AND our friend Jay got baptized!!!
Then we got to eat a huge Father's Day feast at Jay and Myrtle's :)
Monday we had some visitors. The watchman came out to see the place and we showed him around. Then we had a visit from a couple, Charlie and Kim, and their family from Arizona. Kim is the daughter of a lady we've gone to church with forever and they bought property not too far from here so they wanted to come see us. It was a great visit and we're so glad to have met them :)
That night Joel and Kyle went spear fishing at night again (because they didn't have enough going on lol).
Tuesday they went to Jay's and got 2 more logs for the dock.
Wednesday they went to Jay's and got rid of his roosters for him (they were having a hard time doing it themselves) and helped Mike's team work on the park. They put up a whole new section with monkey bars and a slide. Sage said it was the best park ever when we tried it out on Sunday :)
Also on Wednesday our baby chicks started hatching! We got two at first and soon realized that where Black had her nest on the ground was not a good place, there are a lot of ants. So we brought the 2 in and another that was almost hatched. It was so cool cause we got to watch it hatch!
That evening we saw that 2 more were hatching but by the next day they had died still in their shells :( That's when we realized we needed to bring them all in before the ants got them all. I really wanted her to sit on the eggs yet so I brought her and the eggs up on the deck and luckily she sat on them there! Then we got to introduce her babies to her and they all just climbed under her like they'd done it before, it was really cool. We ended up with 4 Blacks and 5 Sandy's altogether :)
Thursday was a really fun day. We went to Soldier Creek to swim at Moses Rock. It's a river with super clear fresh water and by the rock it's really deep. We snorkeled and saw all kinds of amazing fish I've only seen in pet stores, it was awesome. My favorite thing I've done in Belize, and it's so close by!
Thursday night we ate at Jay and Myrtle's for Kyle's last supper. Myrtle made the snapper they caught on the fishing trip - it was aMAZing. We are so spoiled!
Here's a view from the Island to Jay's house, it's so cool to hang out out there!
Friday Joel took Kyle back to the airport, it was sad to see him go it felt like he just lived here! That night Mike's team from the states did a worship night at the church so went to that and it was really good.
Friday night we found out we have some guests coming this week! So we spent Saturday getting ready for them to come on Tuesday and also starting preparations to hand things over to the watchman.
Sunday we went to church and stopped to say good-bye to the Kidders. We are super sad to see them go, they have been such great support to us and we appreciate them so much. They moved closer to the city and are going home to Montana for 2 months - they haven't been home in 3 years! Check out their next steps in their blog: Kidders Mission Here they are with their newly expanded family:
And with us :)
So that leaves today, Monday, and we spent part of the day in Dangriga getting groceries for our guests who arrive tomorrow and doing our visa's and all that. Then the rest of the day getting things cleaned up.
So that is our super busy last 2 weeks! There will be a lot of pictures coming on my facebook page but I sure haven't had a chance to get around to that. Our 4 guests will be here until Friday. Saturday our watchman moves in. Sunday we have church and a bbq at the fishing lodge then Monday we'll pack to leave! It's going to go by SO fast!
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