sorry for so few posts!

This is Emily...
We haven't had internet sorry! We had planned two extra days in Costa Rica longer than the other countries because we wanted to get away for two days. Our two year anniversary is next week, so we got a cool tropical hotel and went away for two days. That's where we have been for the last two days. We are headed to a botanical garden today, and went for a little hike through the rainforest this morning! Lots of cool plants and humming birds and butterflies and waterfalls! It has been much needed to sleep until 8 the past two days!

I promise to put up a picture of the mural next time I have internet. Ben stayed with Josiah and Cynthia and was supposed to hike 4 hours into the jungle to go to a village of Indians to pass out some new testaments that are recently translated into their language! Not sure if they went or not...no real way to communicate with them at this point.

Things of note:
the volcanoe here is smoking!
We bought a little sculpture carved out of coffee roots.
We got to go in a thermal pool...loved the hot water more than ever after all these cold showers!
I have a new appreciation for streets with names on street signs. What a wonderful invention!
We ate lunch at what we think was a Costa Rican version of a truck stop yesterday. Gross food!
There are purple bananas!


Finishing up the mural tomorrow and hoping to seal it. Then we will head to San Jose on Friday, stay over night, and catch an early flight to Miami on Saturday morning to head home!
Oh yeah...and we got the chance to buy a lot of equipment for the church here and we are going to surprise them tonight or tomorrow! We are very excited!
A speaker, mixing board, microphone, stand, cords, etc. They didn't have ANYthing to lead worship, and when they started singing, you couldn't hear the leader or piano anymore. So, thanks to your generosity we get to bless the pastor here! praise the Lord we have gotten to give away $1400!

More later!