Sr. Adventures

We have had the safety speech and we are ready for the zip line.  Yes it was all in Spanish.

At the Larimar Shop.  They mine Larimar up the river from Casa Bonita and this is a little shop just down the road.  Larimar is a semi-precious stone mined only here in the Caribbean I believe.  Blue the color of the see.

Yes, we enjoyed a zipline through the forest behind Casa Bonita.  It was brand new and very safe other than you had to use your hand as the brake with a glove on of course but "You are the brake"   It wasn't too steep or too fast.

Next to the Larimar Shop are a few homes where the people live that run the shop.    Next door they were busy the morning we came.  They were smoking  chivo (goat) out in a small shed in the back yard while the young mother was washing clothes in a dishpan out front and hanging it on the fence line.  I do not know how they keep their clothes looking so very very clean but they do.  We walked down the little path to the other houses.  This is their church next to their home.

This gentleman is 100 and we verified it with the family next door that happened to be his children and grandchildren.    This  fellow was mostly blind but happy and this is his 84 year old wife.  If she looks like she has a beard, it is because she does.

Since I am on a roll here and have finally figured out how to post pictures and format some without getting frustrated I think I will finish the travel log part of the last few months.  The Sr. Missionaries as a group take day trips every once in a while as do Sr. Missionaries with each other when it is convenient.  I know that I showed one picture of Casa Bonita but I think I need to show a few more.  Some were pictures taken with the whole group at Barahona, about 20 miles from Casa Bonita, others were when we went there with the Mehrs.

A small doll factory/shop in Barahona had a hard time fitting us all in as did the Larimar Shop an hour later.

But as you can see we brought a thriving business for the day or maybe month or year.

Lunch at Villa Miriam, a beautiful park with waterfalls.

Kilgores and Swapps

Swapps and Miriam deSchwienitz at Villa Miriam.  Miriam is the mother of  Emily Taylor in our ward back in Greenwood Village.  She is a jewel for all missionaries and an angel to many many Haitians and Dominicans that she tutors with French and Spanish for hours on top of her calling as a full time temple ordinance worker.

To the Frosts, the water here by the mouth of the river where the tailings of the larimar drift give good competition to the water we enjoyed at Corfu.  Not sure this picture does it true justice.