Crazy-ness Wearing Down

Right, well as you may not know Sunday was a very high energy "crazy" kind of day, with one great activity going on after the other. Since it was our day off Jeff drove us team members and three local guys up to Pico Bonito, a mountain that is about a fifteen minute drive from or village. We hiked up this skinny winding trail through the jungle, all the way up to a massively high waterfall. So after swimming all around the pools at its base and having a nice snack, we hiked all the way back down to the smaller waterfall at the base and swam there too! The jungle is amazing, there are so many different plants; trees, ferns, vines, flowers, and these weird little palm trees with big freaking spikes along the stem and seeds, like a thorn apple tree but scarier. Unfortunately though, we did not see any monkeys! There was one toucan that the girls saw, but other than that the wildlife was pretty sparce, which doubles as a blessing seeing as we didn't run into any snakes either. Once we were finished our hike we drove back out through the pineapple feilds and stopped off at a "road-side food making place" as janelle puts it, a little eatery that consisted of an open grill with three different meats and a cooler of soft drinks to choose from. It was very awesome, we sat at the ruff-cut tables under the gazebo style tin rooves and they brought us each a dish with the meat of our choice, three small corn quesadillas, cheese, veggies and refried beans. It was all so typical, but really unlike anything I've tasted, and the best thing was that we knew it was the same stuff that a typical honduranian would eat on any given day. So ya, a bit of culture there, sitting right by the highway as the big trucks roll by with loads of fruit, the smell of open coals burning and vehical exuast, definitley another authentic Honduras experience! The day just went on from there; we got back to the mission house to rest, but some little local guys who are on holidays now came over to play (ages ranging from six to nine), teaching me a bit of spanish and goofing around. This, as a result of me being terrible at spanish, turned into a time of swinging kids around by their arms and having little sprinting matches, and just general wrestling around. It was definitely the most fun I've had in a while, and I didn't even need to know spanish, I just needed to care. So the entire day of Sunday was pretty much a "high", and the last two days have been recovering from it! We were able to get a bunch more painted on the school building and completely repainted the little bathroom building as well, everything is looking way brighter with all the yellow paint. All the the same though, we are generally tired and are in need of recovery for health and productivity, Janelle has been suffering from a sore throat and Barry is just now recovered from some virus or somthing, so please pray that our strength will pick up and we'll all stay healthy (especially Janelle). Regardless of this though, our spirits are still high and we're loving every minute of it! Praise God for his love and mercy, it just keeps on flowing!
signed: Will