If you haven't noticed we have not been putting up recent pictures on the blog but there are two links to photos on Kevin's facebook site. We started using facebook as the pictures upload about 8 times faster. If the links ever stop working let us know.
In our last post, we omitted our kayaking adventure. On New Year's Day, 6 of us rented kayaks to paddle around the lake. Shannon and Kevin were in one kayak, there was another double kayak that went their own way and two singles with us. After paddling about 2/3 of the way across the lake we decided to stop and relax to enjoy the peaceful scenery. After we started heading back, the wind picked up a little blowing against us and making the water a little choppy. Sarah, in one of the single kayaks, started yelling that her kayak was filling with water and, in fact, it was as the cover had not been on the hole in the kayak to keep water from filling the inside of it. As the water was smooth on the way out there had not been a problem. So, she climbed on the front of our kayak and we tied her sinking kayak to the back of Sara W’s boat. The three of us struggled rowing our overweight kayak back to shore where Kevin and Ellie then returned to help Sara W with her sinking kayak tied to her boat who had managed to make it about half way back. Once we finally got the kayaks back we could barely get it out of the water it was so heavy. It was a fun experience that I’m sure looked quite funny to the people watching us from the shore.
Our friend Elizabeth (from youth development) came to visit us two weekends ago. We made a lot of good, normal American food and watched movies in English and played games. It was a lot of fun. Visitors are welcome. Shannon has remained busy with a couple of her counterparts while Kevin has not been doing so much lately. We did go visit a former volunteer who came to visit his former counterpart that Kevin is now going to be working with so it was good to talk to him and get some ideas on how to do some things. We are continuing to talk English with a few Honduras twice weekly. We also met with the local tourism board here in Catacamas that was set up by a German volunteer. Hopefully Kevin can work with them in the future with ecotourism projects. We had a couple of visitors again this past Saturday night. We made some chili and cornbread without cornmeal, not real cornbread but tastes pretty darn close. It was good. The weather had been fairly nice the last couple of weeks. It got warm a couple of days and we thought the summer season had arrived but lately it has rained a little almost every day and been partly cloudy keeping the heat away. We are trying to enjoy it while we can. We still have three cats, two kittens and the mother. Once kitten peed on the bed last night at 2:30 in the morning, so that was very nice of him and Kevin got to clean the sheets and mattress this morning, by hand. We have gotten used to washing clothes by hand and is now normal but big things like sheets are still not fun to wash because the are so big and cumbersome. More to come later. If anybody has anything specific they want to hear about, leave a comment and let us know and we will address it. We hope to have some more pictures of our city soon as well. Take care.