Night out with the family...

Last night was another partying night, this time though we did it family-style. First stop was a a bar/restaurant for some beer and local food (fried pastries filled with your choice of cheese, beef, crab, chicken or fish).

The place was a little too loud, it was great but we were looking for a more relaxed atmosphere where we could actually drink and talk without having to yell across the table, so we moved the party to another bar and continued the drinking and fun until 2 am...

Isn't it all about the view??

Who would not like to wake up every day to this??

It's beach time!!!

Went to the beach yesterday..it is more beautiful here than I remembered...

opening my mind....

I am having such a good learning experience this time. I have been learning about the situations in school, and now know more about the economic hardships and see deeper into the picture than before. I love trying to imagine my life in the shoes of the people I see, as I see a man pulling a huge cart up a hill on the side of the highway, full of boxes, doing work that, in the worse case scenario, a donkey would be doing...then I imagine being the lady that lives in a one room concrete house in a favela, hanging her clothes on a line outside, wondering what she has inside...and knowing that she still has good days, and remembering the night I was mad at work because I only made $75.....which is what she makes in a month. It makes me really appreciate what I have and know that my life is so good...it is so good that I should not let little bull shit ruin my day because I have it so good.... :)

WHEW!

So the shoes finally made it! Imagine a girl without her shoes...although it would have been the perfect excuse to go shoe shopping!!

We're here!!

So we made it, after spending 24 hours in either a plane or airport.....unfortunatley one of our bags did not...the one with all of our SHOES!! Anyway, we will see what happens with that. We are exhausted today, but hopefully tomorrow we can relax on the beach.

It is great being reminded of the differences of the two places, because you kind of forget after a while. It is so hot! The weather is going to take some getting used to, along with everything else.

Pictures from Jaclyn's birthday are up!!

Pictures from the madness at Jalapenos and Little Willy's are up. Good times.

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