April, Full House Style

It has been wonderful to be back "home" in San Pedro. I had really missed the family [I feel like they are mine now :-) ] and the kids from Hogar Esperanza and Widow's Mite. It has been H-O-T here the past few days - we are talkin 98 degrees, feels like 110, completely humid, sticky HOT. It's amazing how the heat can really sap your energy when you aren't used to it! Everyone was right when they said "this is nothin'" when I talked about how hot it was when I arrived. Interestingly, all the locals say that the first week in April is the hottest of the year. Go figure. Jorge says that it is actually just the first real hot of summer then, and it just stays that hot until, like, September. Woah.

ANYWAY.

Big News! I am having visitors!! YAY!

Kim Martiniuk, my partner in crime since age 4, is coming down on April 3rd for a week; and Philip Howard, my fantastic boyfriend, is coming on April 6th for two weeks! Can we talk about how excited I am for just a second????

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okay. Thanks.

Kim will get to experience (aside from the "hottest week of the year") all of the Easter festivities of Semana Santa! The week before Easter, we are going to all the orphanages in San Pedro to do egg hunts and other games.

And Philip will be arriving the day of our Easter party here at the house for all the kids at church! We are going to be cramming as much "Honduras/ROOM experience" in as possible while they are here. Then on the 16th the Garcias are headed to the States to speak to some churches and do some fund raising, and Mary, Philip, and I are going to Sherry and Terry's for a few days (Sherry and Terry have a soup kitchen/street ministry and they attend our church). Then Mary and I are off to Puerta Limpira for two weeks, then back to the States! WHOOSH. That is time flying at its best.

I can hardly believe how fast it's going and how fast it will go, until May. But what adventures I have waiting on me in the next few weeks! And what beautiful ones I have been blessed with thus far!