• took a break, now I’m back

    I think I out did myself by writing so much during my trip.  or I just didn’t feel like talking.  whatever. 🙂 So I haven’t been up to too much.  Just getting caught up at work and at home.  Took me a few weeks to recover physically, those trips knock…

  • follow up to Costa Rica trip

      Hard to believe I’ve already been home for 2 weeks.  I think I’ve finally recovered too, geez. I don’t think I explained how big of deal it was that I got in the ocean that one day.  See, I’m afraid of water, especially water of which I can’t see…

  • Costa Rica Day 15

    Not much to report about the last day there.  We took off at 1a or so to get to the airport.  5 hour flight to Denver, 5 hour layover (thanks to my aunt for meeting us for lunch), 2 hour flight to St Louis.  Got to STL around 8p, home after…

  • Costa Rica days 13 & 14

    Yesterday morning we had a cooking class again and made some really good stuff.  We made coffee cake and homemade tortillas.  Yummy.  I asked Debbie, why cooking classes?  she said that whatever God gives us, we can use for ministry.  She loves to cook and it builds relationships, she can…

  • Costa Rica Days 11 & 12

    yesterday we had 2 more ESL classes and they were both really good.  we there were 7 of us ladies in the morning class and we all shared testimonies or stories from our lives.  It was a really sweet time.  Had some really good conversations with the group of ladies…

  • Costa Rica Day 10

    10 days already??  wow! Today we took a drive to San Isidro.  It’s a larger town in the mountains a little ways away from Quepos.  Beautiful drive, cute place.  We ate a nice little cafe for lunch and stopped at a cute little cafe on the way home for coffee…

  • Costa Rica Days 8 & 9

    Yesterday I spent the morning and afternoon with my new friend Holly.  She’s working with an organization called Seeds of Hope.  I’ve mentioned this before, and I still promise to talk about that soon.  Anyway, she needs to develop a video for fundraising, which I was taking photos to help…

  • Costa Rica Days 6 and 7

    Half way through day 7 already, but here’s what we did yesterday… Debbie (we’re staying at her house) hosts   a cooking class on Thursday and we made some chocolate truffle tarts.  So yummy!  We kinda had a relaxing day though.  Yesterday evening we went to a church were the…