Easter in Costa Rica

I can't believe Easter has already come and gone!! How fast it went by. We had a small break from school, Wednesday through Easter Sunday. This break came at just the right moment as we are packing and cleaning the house for the next family to move in. Good Friday morning the Catholic Church had a Crucifixion parade. They start about a 2 miles from their church and walk back and reinact the walk Jesus made to Galgatha. Overall it was very interesting to watch. I could see that this was a very important part of the Catholic church here in San Jose. Saturday afternoon we had a small Easter "egg" hunt at our house with our friends The Burtons. However instead of eggs we just had wrapped candy to hide. So each child could find 1 each of the 4 types of sweets we had for them. I think they had a really good time with this. Easter morning the girls woke up and went to find their Easter "baskets". I am getting really good at improvising! They loved finding their surprises. We went to church Easter morning and was excited that we were arriving on time for once. We walked in to find that the 8am service started at 6am and the 10:30am service started at 9am. We didn't know that the services were changed for Easter Sunday. Oh well, we'll just say we were REALLY early for the 9am service. So we waited and were able to have a good conversation with the Pastor. We really had a great Easter and were able to relax with a little down time in order to reflex on the great sacrifice Jesus did for us. I really feel that with the parade it really helped me to picture myself there on that walk to Galgatha. It brought tears to my eyes. In the picture link below are pictures of everything mentioned above along with a short video of the parade. Try to picture yourself there 2000 years ago as a bystander watching the procession. Hope you and your family took time out this year to give thanks for the sacrifice that took place 2000 years ago for you! May God bless your week.

Prayer bug: Pray for our visa process that it will be completed soon and we can move on to what God has for us in Puebla.

Easter