Another Busy One

bananas growing in our back yard

Girls dancing while we wait for Doug & Peggy

Doug & Peggy :)

View from elevator at Conway in David

Goofin' at Conway

interesting sight to see

the bird on the bus goes cock-a-doodle do, all thru the town

Sight on the way to our rental in Boquete

Our luggage for 5 days.. loco gringos

Kingdom Hall in Boquete

a guest awaited our arrival

on tour in Boquete, rocks look like pebbles in the pic

but they are really huge!!

on tour

an one foot wide bridge held up by a tree?!!

what was going on under the bridge!!

and another view under the bridge

A piece of the head of our tour guide, but look at the sky!

wow wow wow wow wow!!! What a day. And here is the short version (sorry) :( the pics I will post will reflect our day..

Up at 6am, Doug and Peggy picked us up at 730 infront of our house (pic for that:). We made it to David by 840a where we ran in to a missionary couple, Jeremy and his beautiful wife. We chatted with them about a half hour and got in touch with Josh Randall who many of you know who has been in Changinola for at least two years. We will try to catch up with them (he and his wife Lisa) towards the end of June if at all possible. Then we started our bathing suit hunt. That yielded no results but was fun anyway trying to communicate when you don't speak the language. So it's like in broken Spanish.. for instance I wanted to get the the dressing room and so I just said.. "donde...la ropa".. the lady just laughed and pointed us in the right direction. I was quite embarrassed but didn't have time to feel it because I was too busy laughing at myself because she was laughing. Virtually I said "where..clothes".. hahahaha  Sigh, at least she understood my silliness. I'm sure she gets it allll the time, the stores in that mall-like area are surely designed for us gringos.

We made it out of there and then went to the David bus stop via taxi.. And again that was an adventure. If we get to return to Panama I now know what I need to learn to say in Spanish.. Anyway, before we got in I told him where we needed to go "la terminal"...looks easy enough but where they put the emphasis on the syllables is totally different. Then I had to agree on an amount before getting in.. So unfortunately I have to skip the courtesies and merely say "uno? dos?".. Well, we made it to the bus station.

Now I've never seen anything quite like it. I will have to take pics of it on our way back thru Sat or Sun. There was a mess of people and me and my daughters stuck out like a sore!!! thumb! After circling the area 2 times, which surely isn't the safest being as white as we are, I finally asked a bus driver where the bus for Boquete is supposed to be stationed. We made it thru that and found it was just a few buses down but it wasn't there yet. Hariette and her grandson Aiden joined us for the bus ride and Zoe went with the Murphy's via car. It was a trip on the bus! A young-ish Panamanian got on the bus up the road from David and sat beside Hariette, which was across the aisle from me and Aliah and Asa, and what did he have as "carry-on luggage"? No really, guess.. Nope, he had two roosters!!!!!  Granted they were awfully cute. I pointed to the camera and he said it was fine. So we got some pics of the roosters. (they are roosters right?) On his way off the bus he let the girls pet one (yea he had more than one with him:).

So we fortunately got off at the right stop and walked on in the the house we were to stay at in Boquete. I have to say, it is sooooooooo beautiful! I will have to get pics tomorrow and post them. Too, there are 6 hammocks hanging on the wrap-around porch! Can you imagine?! And also 4 bedrooms with 7 beds!! All for $50 a night (tell me I can't find a deal:) We are very blessed. Then once we got here (which we didn't originally know) Jim called a local brother and found out the Kingdom Hall is merely 4 doors down from us. That's just crazy!!! And Jim is giving the talk there this Sunday:) So we walked down to the KH and took some pics..

Then we thought we'd take a bus or taxi and go to the center of town and get dinner and some groceries. It was jam packed on the bus we took!! But we made it alive :) Then we went to dinner and I was the one who ordered for all of us. That was interesting, I'm definitely NOT the one to do it, but it all worked out! We each ate a 4 course meal including our drink for $2.75 each. I had a papaya juice, fresh pressed, for my first time. It was yummy!! Oh, a guy in the kitchen could speak perfect English (and Spanish, he is from Panama) and so he offered to give us a tour of Boquete once he got off of work in an hour. So me and my girls and Hariette and Aiden took him up on it. While we waited we went to the produce stand, grocery store, then waited in the park for him.

Anyway, he took us all over Boquete, up the mountain, around the mountain and down. Without killing us or selling us off to locals. Haha, I say that but truly sooo many bad thoughts popped into my head off and on. You know, it's hard to fully trust people who aren't witnesses.. Plus we are Foreigners if you've forgotten :) I will post pics because it's the best I can do :) And realize it was 10x as amazing as these pics are.

Okay, gotta get some rest. Do up at 530 in the morning for the White Water Rafting. :) All my love <3