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



Another Guest! Jamie!

 

 Hello!

Aunt Jamie was here! We had a blast.

With market day, the hydro, and pork chops, going to Cayes,

crocheting, basketball at the court, and Haitian church!

It was Great!

 

 

Jamie is here!

 

Hadley made a speed bump! There are huge speed bumps everywhere in Haiti! It kept him busy for a whole afternoon!There is not much traffic where he made it but he thought it would be needed if there was.

 



Pork chops on the grill! Yum!

Grandma and grandpa brought them down for us when they came!

 



 

Jamie and I did loads of dishes while she was here!

There is still always lots of dishes to do!



We had burgers at a Haitian restaurant called Hot Spot!

They were actually pretty good!



 

Market day with Jamie!

Wednesday and Saturday are market days.

This was at Gwo Maren, the market we go to.

 

Mom Zip lining!

We set up a zip line a couple of weeks ago that we got for Christmas.

Ever since we have been using it!

 

Mom and dad's creole instructor got to meet Aunt Jamie.

 

 

Mom  held a Haitians hand at church.

 

 

 

By: Toby Plattner

Joyful Reunions!

 

 

Hello!!

We have so much to catch you up on from our last month, so we decided to do a lot of pictures and just a few words! 

We enjoyed a day at Wray's Camp in Cayes where they have a waterslide, a gym, and many other fun activities.

 

 

 

 

We daringly tried some grilled chicken that we bought from a street vendor!

 

 

A Sunshine Box arrived from the Wettstein's and made our day!!

 

 

We hired some Haitians to build us some concrete steps to our roof, so we don't have to climb a ladder anymore (with a full laundry basket on the hip!)

 

 

 

Another beautiful Haitian sunset!

 

 

Brenna with her friend Orrin!

The kids had a dress-up day at school, so they went as the Hardy Boys and made Brenna be Aunt Gertrude! 

 

 

We love visitors!!!  Mike, Amber and Jayden Grimm(our dear friends!) came to spend about a week with us!  It was a huge blessing for us to have them here, and we enjoyed some fun activities (and some work!).  The first few pictures are of our visit to Jimmy's bee hives and tasting some fresh honeycomb!

 

Hiking to the hydro is always fun!  The kids love swimming in the waterfalls!

 

 

 

 

Cleaning and Organizing day! 

 

I was so glad to have Amber here to help me with this mess!!!

Wow!  It's a new room!

 

 

On Valentine's Day we made special heart cookies!

 

 

A couple day after the Grimms left.....  We had a joyful reunion with my parents!

 

 

 

Pops made some Haitian friends!  He used the machete to cut a coconut for these boys!

 

We hiked a short mountain behind our house.

Delicious coconut milk!

My dear mother helped out a lot with laundry etc.!

The last day they were here, we enjoyed a beautiful afternoon at the beach.  We also ate a Haitian meal of chicken, shrimp (with the eyeballs still in), rice, grease gravy, fried plantains and French fries.

 

Mom and Dad also got to be here for the kids' History Fair which they presented on Friday evening at school.  The kids were very glad for Grandma and Grandpa's support!

Brenna was Amy Carmichael.

Hadley was Ty Cobb.

 

 Toby was Sam Walton.

 

Reggie was John Deere.

 

 

We are so thankful for the time we have had with our visitors over the last couple weeks!  It has been a big encouragement for us!

As we move ahead, we would appreciate your prayers as Kurt started his job at the hospital a month ago, and we all are trying to get used to a new routine.