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Roatan in Honduras

beach at west bay

Flora is holding a night monkey

Seth with Iguana

Raratonga

Chillin’

Sunset

Cook Islands

Hey yesterday we saw a stone fish ahh

the beach near where we stayed

Seth feeding fish in the sea

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Floras birthday was a fun day of opening presents.She sleepy in until 10am!I dream of a birthday like that!!

We went out for the kids favorite dinner in the village..at a cheap and cheerful commodore..we had pupusas..tortillas stuffed with cheese..and an anafre..refried beans with stretchy cheese cooked over charcoal..and you eat it with fried tortillas..its yummy.Hamish had a typical plate..of rice beans..sour cream..meat and salad.

We then went up the mountain to our friend evas house..for a delicious cake..and a piñata

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you hit it until all the sweets fall out..great fun. Flora got her nose pushed in the cake before we ate it..a local tradition!

Seth improved on his machete skills..cutting wood and grass with one of the workmen called Oscar.

Whilst in the café we were laughing about Spanish soap operas..they are on in the background everywhere you go.The leading lady is always crying hysterically..and dressed like they are on their way to the `Oscars`..normally they have dyed their naturally dark hair a weird shade of blonde.A fight breaks out every few minutes and furniture is always smashed..its so overacted its like a comedy sketch..it actually makes neighbours look like Shakespeare..its so funny it always lifts our spirits..but everyone wonders why we are laughing…I reckon they would find british TV pretty dull!Well we are soon leaving will be sad..we are off to Roatan an island off the Caribbean coast of honduras..its gorgeous..crystal clear water..palm trees..Iguanas on the beach(seth will love it)Cant wait for the break..we`ll send you photos.Keep us in your prayers as we travel many hours on buses and planes in the next few weeks!Love to you all Rachel and Clan.PS Our car was sold in the states..great news..our friend Ed sold it and sorted it out..the totally ace family we stayed with in the states.I don’t think we have met kinder people in a long time..they are a tremendous witness for God in the way that they live.Write again soon.

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Hi feeling poorly today so it wont be my usual jabbering on for hours!it will be early to bed I hope!had a music practice in the city..so had two bus journeys on my own…the usual 3 on one seat crush..but I kept safe..and enjoyed playing a piano.Helping to lead in church tomorrow..should be good.Been teaching lots this week..the kids here are so willing to learn..it’s a lot of fun…Seth has been helping teach kids maths he has been a real help.Darcy is a social animal and is always out with her friends..and flora has aquired a passion for recorder playing..which we are trying to encourage !!!despite the intense pain it causes in our heads. I have been enjoying bouncing on the trampoline…showing them tricks..which once they have mastered get a lollipop.. its lots of fun…stops the boredom of manning a line of eager bouncers!Its been a full week of entertaining people who just drop in..one evening 5 extras appeared for tea..it was Hamishs chips and egg evening..but he was still out when everyone arrived so it was like a local chippie for a few hours with me sweating over the chip pan…I think I have inherited my mums habit of always making a bit more just in case any one pops in…the world has cottened on !!and pops in very frequently…but I much prefer it that way to pre arranged drop ins!its more spontaneous…and you don’t have to worry what the house looks like!what am I going on about..oh Don Pablos dog which we all loved died yesterday..he thinks he ate poison..a few pet dogs have been poisoned this week by poison we think put down for the rats or the dogs..such a shame…and yet all the flea bitten skinny unloved pitiful dogs..don’t seem to have eaten any!!must go to bed in need of sleep to get better really dodgy tummy its that been up all night feeling…don’t know whats up..but head is wrecked(my daughter and that recorder!)post this in teguc tomorrow..night night..listening to Damien Rice chilling me out love it.Take care love Rachel and the clan.XX

A word from Hamish

Sat in our kitchen writing email so I can send them quickly tomorrow when we go down to Tegus as we hope to treat the kids out to the cinema as it is Flora’s Birthday on Tuesday, where has 6 years gone!! Been a very busy week, today put in the foundation for the 5^th house, we use over 17 bags of cement for the concrete, thankfully there was 10 of us working on it. It has been a hard week as we had to dig out the foundations this week by pick and shovel, why don’t they have a bobcat?!? Also more walks in the country, sadly one of the kids (not ours Thankfully) got bitten by a big dog on the face she seems ok and they don’t seem worried about rabies and it was not deep so no stitches, later on Darcy found a snake thankfully it was dead. The vehicles they drive, and tyres with wire showing, pick ups which look like they have been in a scarp yard for 5 years with 20 plus bags of cement in crawling up roads I find difficult to walk up, it is crazy!! What else can I say but the cockroaches in the microwave keep growing and multiplying!

Well we will be leaving soon we hope to go to the Bay islands next week for a few days, so google Roatan it is a beautiful place opps chip pan about to explode, good ole chips but not with egg tonight but chicken que rico!!

After our little break we are back here to say our good byes So Sad I hate it! We travel up to Guatemala City via El Salvador then fly up to LA for 2 days then on to Raratonga in the Cook Islands then on to NZ for December.God bless Take Care

Hamish and Co.

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