A Break At Last!

Children's Museum

We have finally, officially, reached the end of our first trimester of language school! Aaron received his evaluation score of Intermediate Low as well(Please see previous email for a break down of the levels). We have both reached our goal for the first trimester. But we were only able to do this with the help of your prayers reaching God's ears. We were able to kick off our break with a surprise trip to the Children's Museum of San Jose (Museo de los Ninos). The girls had a great time and us as the parents did as well. There was a lot of hands on stations and play areas for the girls. The best part was it only cost us 3,000 colones to get in which translates to 6 dollars for our family. Evie is still at the age she can get in for free most places. Above is the link to see the pics from our day at the museum. However, I have to warn you there were some pretty interesting things on display here that you would probably never see in the US. So it was a very comical experience sometimes. But the girls are still young enough they really didn't know what was so funny, and it was all in spanish, so most of the time we didn't even know what it was saying. However, we could put together the gist of what it was talking about with the pictures helping a lot!

Friday the 15th was Dia de Madre or Mother's day here. You would've thought it was Christmas because everything was closed! So for mother's day I received a clean house from my wonderful Aaron and kiddos. They had the time to clean it because I was gone most of the day with two other women painting a room at the school. There is a room that is called the Student lounge/library that we sit in quite a bit during the trimester. We were all sitting there one day and someone finally voiced what we had all been thinking... "This room could really use a paint job." So we received the permission and all the supplies to get the job done. We were so excited to see the end result and are very anxious to use the room this next trimester. The before and after pics of the room are right after the pics of the museum. Tune in next week for pictures from our first trip to Volcano Arenal. Please pray this week for traveling safety for our family the 4 other families we will be with. Hope you have a blessed week.