Nuestras cosas favoritas

Here is a list of some of our favorite things:

JUANITO:

*Lizards (big and little ones)

Sorting cards with brothers

Boogie-boarding/Surfing with Daddy

Eating pancakes

Pinata candy

ANDRES:

*Daddy not working

Going surfing with Daddy

Playing double solitaire with David

Eating cacahuates (peanuts)

*Making a robot and marble track out of trash

*Walking the Andador

*Drinking Aquas Frescas

*Playing at Diego y Angie's house with weapons and 2 dogs

Lifting bricks at the orphanage

Swimming with Miguel who might be stronger than Uncle Brad

My birthday - getting presents and candy from the pinata

Going fishing and catching the first fish

Being visited from the Mexican tooth fairy and getting pesos and dollars

DAVID:
*Daddy staying home

*Playing cards with everyone

*Playing Bookworm

Watching Star Wars

*Aquas Frescas

*Experiencing another country

*Going to beach every day

*Seeing Juan y Luis

*Spending time with Sierra and Diego Palladino

*Seeing turtles in the boat

Watching a soccer game

*Making a dog out of paper

CHRIS:

*Lots and lots of family time
*Visiting the zoo in Tuxtla

Day surf trip to Chicawa

Fishing with David & Andres

*Special times with Juanito

*Learning Spanish better

KRISTA:

All of the *ed ones above. :)

Watching the boys meet Juan & Luis (our sponsored Compassion International kids) for the first time

Staying at a hotel in Tuxtla where we could drink water out of the tap

AND here is a list of our least favorite things:

JUANITO:

Seeing the doggy with the bad owie on his leg

Watching the bad doggies be mean to the nice doggy with the owie

ANDRES:

The flies at El Mercado and in restaurants

The dog without an eyeball

DAVID

Dogs barking all day and night

Roosters cock-a-doodling all day and night

40 mosquito bites in one day

Cockroaches, bugs, ants, bats in our house

12 hour bus rides

Loud cars: selling tortillas, empenadas, gas & with mufflers breaking off in the road

CHRIS & KRISTA:

All of the above +

Blank looks from locals

Fires to burn trash day and night

Rain that brings mud that brings bugs which bite and sting us

Poopy toilet paper in the trash next to the toilet

Sand in our bed

The freaking heat that has reminded us how thankful we are for our eternal salvation in heaven and not in hell.

We have loved our time here AND are thankful to be coming home. :) Our flight leaves today (Friday) at 3:15 (PE time - 2 hours ahead). We have a layover in Mexico City and then we land in LAX at 9:30 (SB time). My mom is picking us up from the airport and then we drive home and sleep in our own beds!!!

Hasta pronto, amigos.