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

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



Life Goes On

 

Hello!

There has been a lot going on including some beautiful sunsets, a visit to an old French Fort, fixing our fences, going to a cave, eating at a Chinese restaurant, swimming in a giant natural pool.

Here are some pictures of our past weeks.

 

 

 Beautiful sunset from a lookout a little ways up the road from the hospital!

 

 

 Reggie and I playing basketball with some boys on a work team!

 

We replaced our fence because the old bad wire wouldn't keep the chickens and dogs out.

 

 

 Hadley pushed a Haitian boy named Francisco in the wheelbarrow.

 

 

 We went out to eat!
We ate at a Haitian restaurant in Cayes.
It was called the Nami Chinese Restaurant.
It was great, and the food was delicious.

 

We had great time at the Nami.
 

 

 Fort de Platon is on top of a mountain and is an old French fort.
This is a window in the wall of the fort. 

 

 

 We walked around the fort on the wall!

 

 

 It was awesome!

 

 

There were huge underground storerooms.

 

 

 It was overgrown, but it was awesome!

 

 

 The road to the fort was steep, rough, with lots of hairpin turns, and no guard rails on the edge to stop you from falling down a cliff.

 

 

 Tet Lakile is an under ground lake that is about 30 ft deep.

 

 

 The water comes from an underground spring.
It was awesome!

 

 

 We swam in some rapids about 1 mile down the river from Tet Lakile.

 

 

 We went to caves! They were awesome and had bats!

 

 

  Mom and dad like to take walks after supper and sometimes they go to this lookout by the hospital.

 

 

We got a new concrete pad beside our house. It is awesome for basketball and we play there almost every day! 

 

Hadley's teacher in the US visited us while she was on a work team in Cayes.

 

 

By: Toby