Honduras, round one

This is the school, Instituto El Ray, it is right below Earl and Sharon's house.



















Here we are playing soccer with the Hondurans, they won, ofcourse!
















Here are a bunch of the students at the Instituto El Ray, they were celebrating their 8th anniversary as a school.








Here is a bunch of us walking through the
village of Rio Viejo, that is where we stayed.















This is Earl and Sharon's house, it is right up against the jungle, and yes I saw lots of tarantulas and other creepy crawlies!





Here are the boys in the river, we all went
swimming in the Rio Viejo, yep, even Jafeth.
We let our baby swim in a river in Honduras.




















Here are some kids walking through the village of Rio Viejo.






Isn't this a beautiful picture, that is Justice
walking through the village of Rio Viejo.





















Here is a home in the village.







This is the plane we flew from San Pedro Sula
to La Ceiba in. Zach kept saying that it looked
like something out of an Indiana Jones movie!!

Here is our authentic Honduran cuisine that we had a little restaurant called Cobel's in La Ceiba.








Here are my guys all swimming in the Rio
Viejo.

The Caribbean, it was so beautiful! And really warm too ( I dipped my feet in!)

Here is our family in the airport in Houston, this is on the way down to Honduras. It was about 5am, right before sunrise.


Well, we made it back alive! Praise the Lord. It was totally amazing down there. I lost my camera in La Ceiba and the Lord totally returned it to me, it was an honest to goodness miracle! The Dr. who works in the compound next to Earl and Sharon's went down to La Ceiba and retrieved it for me! So anywho I just got it back and that is why I haven't posted until now, I didn't have my pics.


Well, the school, Instituto El Ray, is amazing, it was so great to see Earl and Sharon and be part of their hospitality. Zach spoke in the school about his job and taught basketball to the Hondurans. He is also helped with the building of the ministry house. I taught dance and art in the school and held a soccer camp one afternoon as well.


We were blessed to be part of the ministry down there, it was so incredibly beautiful. We saw all types of scary tarantulas, scorpions, stick bugs, geckos, fireflies, fireants, huge moths....the list goes on and on, so ofcourse my boys were in heaven!!


We hope to go back again, it was really amazing and completely changed our perspective on life. We are so deeply incredibly blessed to live in our country. It was amazing to see the strength of the people who live in Honduras. The most amazing part was seeing Earl and Sharon and Bob and Joyce serving and living in Honduras as full time missionaries. We deeply admire and respect them.


Well that being said, when we got home we went out to red robin to eat (yum!) Zach craved burgers the whole time we were gone! I was so happy to drive my suburban and sleep in my bed again:-)


I hope each of you has an opportunity to do a short term mission someday, there are so many stories to tell, it would take up 40 blog posts. So if you see me around ask me about our 26 hour flight home, Justice killing a huge giant tarantula, no water for 26 hours, Jafeth being attacked by hords of fireants, our 4 hour hike to the Mayan ruins, the entire missing camera story, the tarantula crawling out of our luggage(!!!) etc...etc....