Fun Friends Visiting and Lots of Adventure (with a tiny dose of mishap)

So this past Sunday was Easter and we celebrated in style as I hid a bunch of eggs for Katelyn to find all over our apartment! She isn’t a morning person, but we did have fun searching for them once she ‘woke up’. Lol. We all went to church on Sunday and enjoyed the Easter service followed by a little lunch. We spent the day on the beach and then we headed home. We came up the stairs to our apartment and we heard a male voice in our living room.. hesitantly we walked through towards it and got a huge surprise to find Troy standing in our kitchen!! He decided on Friday to come visit, so he switched his shifts, booked his flights and hopped on the plane! It was the craziest Easter surprise ever!! J So on Sunday night we had Kara & Neil and Troy all visiting and it was a hoot!!

Kate took the first few days off clinic this week to spend with Kara & Neil, but Troy and I went to clinic. We had a pretty busy day catching up on all the patients who got themselves hurt or sick over the Semana Santa break we had from clinic, plus our usual Monday busy! But things went really great all things considered! Troy & I were in the pharmacy and he caught on super quick! The biggest issue was the Spanish but he was a quick learner and by the end of the day, he was able to write simple medication instructions in Spanish (with minimal supervision). Then Tuesday was an even busier day and we saw 80 patients, so we dispensed a LOT of medication! Troy has been jumping into daily life here and he came to tutoring with us and had fun tutoring Oscar! Then we all hiked up into the Colonia to see the living conditions of the people who live there and we visited some of our tutoring kids homes along the way. It’s quite the climb, I’ll admit but so worth it! It is an eye opener to see the homes etc and the view from the top of the mountain is spectacular!

Kara & Neil were supposed to leave for home on Wed but they ended up getting really sick with a travelling bug and Kate did too. Kara & Neil delayed their flight til the next day and they all stayed in bed with the nasty travelling sickness. Troy and I went to clinic and had a great day! Then we came home and played home care nurses to everyone who wasn’t feeling well. Kara & Neil were able to fly home on Thursday and made it home safe and sound!

So now we still have Troy visiting and we have been showing him around the island and what our ‘normal’ life here is like. We have been doing fun things like going kayaking at sunset, swimming off our dock, random movie nights etc. I have been working on learning to bake in Honduras. It’s trickier than you might think because they don’t have the same ingredients as we do at home in Canada, and I also don’t have any measuring utensils.. so it becomes a big game of guesstimation! J But I was determined to make Nanaimo bars because another Canadian expat had asked if I could.. and I never back down from a good challenge! It was a few days in the making, but I seriously think I did it! J And who knew it was such a ‘Canadian’ dessert! But I’ve had fun sharing them with others and I think I’ll make another batch soon!

               

Saturday we rented a car and headed out to explore the east end of the island where it is more remote. We don’t get to go out east very often because its expensive to cab and things are more rural so you’d basically need a rental car to do that. Kate, Troy and I had an absolutely spectacular day hanging out and being adventurous together! We saw a lot of beautiful places, enjoy some rest on the beautiful Camp Bay beach, had some fantastic pizza and watch the sunset on a little café over the water! 

Spectacular day! But it had a bit of an unfortunate ending… a car accident. It was a miracle no one was hurt! So praise God for that, but we totalled our rental car and it has been a mess to sort all that out. I’ll leave the story there… perhaps when I get home, it will be easier to tell. For now though, we are thankful that we are all ok and are resting in the fact that cars can be replaced.. people can’t! But we’d all really appreciate your prayer around this! :)