Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Visitors Brighten Our Life!

 
We had visitors!
Grandma & Grandpa P were here for a week in early May, and we had a blast.
We went to the beach, took gator rides, and pretty much had a lot of fun.
We also had an engagement reception at our house for our neighbor and
her fiancé who lived in Les Cayes.
 
 
We all rushed down to the guesthouse when
grandma and grandpa arrived from Port-au-Prince.
 
 
We took a gator ride to a town called Plaisance.
 
 
Mom sings with a group of Haitian ladies and
grandma joined her for practice.
 
 
Grandpa liked to meet Haitians and tried out his
French on them.
 
 
This happy tap-tap drove by on the way up the
mountain from Cayes.
 
 
This is a picture of the Cavaillon River. Cavaillon
is a town at the bottom of our mountain that
 you pass through on the way to Cayes.
 
 
Grandma got a picture with Gaylens, one of our
Haitian friends.
 
 
Us walking to Haitian church on Sunday morning.
 
 
Hadley gave Gaylens a baseball cap
a few weeks ago and now he wears
 it everywhere.
 
 
We borrowed an ice cream maker and
have been enjoying some homemade
ice cream.
 
 
Our school mascot it the gecko (a small lizard) and
all of the missionaries got Bonne Fin Gecko shirts.
 
 
With grandma and grandpa, we visited a Haitian
bread bakery. This machine rolls out the dough.
 
 
Grandma and Grandpa and Brenna
before heading off to Les Cayes.
 
 
We had fun at the beach on the last
day that grandma and grandpa were
 here.
 
 
 
 
 
We ate supper on our porch a lot of evenings
with grandma and grandpa.
 
 
On a gator ride.
 
 
We went to the Cayes market with grandma and
grandpa. It looks and smells disgusting, but you
can buy anything from bananas, to pig heads,
to church clothes.
 
 
Grandpa worked on our fence to
our yard with another one of our
Haitians friends.

 
 
 
By: Toby and Reggie

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Bon jou

 
Hi to all!
Life goes on here...
Reggie and I had birthdays. 
We got a sea container, had a church service by the beach, enjoyed visitors etc, etc. 
 
 
 
The Hospital Lumiere board of directors was here in April!
 
 
 
We enjoyed a church service by the beach while the board was here.
We had church in the gazebo shown in the picture above.
It was right on the ocean and had a beautiful view.
 
 
This is part of the spectacular view at Zanglais.
 
 
 
Mom and some other missionary moms joined a Haitian ladies singing group and taught them
an English song. They sang it for the church on Sunday.
 
 
We got our sea container a few weeks ago!
We were very excited to get stuff that was sent for us!
 
 
We also got a playground for the
 school on the sea container.
 
 
With a lot of missionaries from the area,
we had a May 1 picnic at the RMI Beach house
 
 
Everyone was supposed to bring some meat to the picnic.
There was hotdogs, brats, chicken, burgers, and even a couple of steaks!
 
 
The men had a morning meeting at a little restaurant down the road.

 
 I enjoyed a ride on Sheila's four wheeler!

 
Dad took a moment to pose with the Hospital security guards that he manages.

 
Brenna and Conrad are buddies!

 
Sunday afternoon Bluegrass with some missionary friends from Cayes.

 
Mom enjoyed a visit with her dear friend Peg.
 
 
 
We run across some interesting creatures here in Haiti.  At the top is a big crab that we found by our house.  It was quite large - maybe 8" wide.  The bottom picture shows a scorpion that dad ran across.
 
 
 
By: Toby