It is beautiful here today! With all of the rain we have had the trees and shrubs are all brilliant greens and the flowering plants are vivid colors.
Spent the morning studying and gathering clothes to wash. Unfortunately when the clothes were ready be rinsed the water went off. The last time that happened I had wet clothes for two days and they really stunk! I finally just draped them over the chairs in our "clothes dryer" room and will have to wash them when we have water again.
On Friday nights the senior couples meet at the Casa to go out to dinner together. They try to go somewhere new each time but after while find favorites that they return to. We haven't gone with them yet. We had a meeting out in the San Cristobal Stake so the Snow's called and proposed that we all go to Johnny Rocket's for supper then they would go with us out to San Cristobal. Johnny Rockets is a high end hamburger place they just opened. It is supposed to be the biggest in their chain of restaurants.
When we met them at the Casa the Mahons were visiting with them. They had been looking for an apartment and hadn't found one. Sister Mahon asked if we had a swimming pool where we lived- we laughed - and said we were lucky to have water period. She said they had told them not to look at apartments in our building. Can you believe that???
There is little parking around Johhny Rockets but when we got into the parking lot they took the car and parked in underground parking. The atmosphere was fun - a jukebox with old Frank Sinatra songs and other old and new songs; balloons tied everywhere, and an entirely different clientele than you see at McDonalds. These were obviously more privileged young adults. Yuppies Scott says...
Most of the young men we have seen have very short haircuts but many of these kids were not black and had full heads of hair. It was actually rather strange to see so many young men with hair! This was a group of people here we have never seen - more Puerto Rican.
While we were eating our delicious hamburgers it started to rain again - it was almost like a mini-hurricane. The rain was coming down so hard, the wind was blowing the rain every which way.
Before we left the McDermits and the Glaziers came in for dinner and gave us a bad time for going earlier without them.
Driving here is scary at best but riding is even worse. The rain was leaving water on the roads making them slippery and hard to see but that did not inhibit these drives at all. I did discover it is worse sitting in the back seat!! We drove along the ocean out into the outskirts of the city which would have been beautiful if we could have seen it. There was standing water at least four inches deep on many,many sections of the road. Our biggest fear was the water stalling the car but the we were protected! It made me think of driving the missionaries to the temple back home because we never had bad weather conditions when they were with us. We finally got there and the town was so picturesque. I would love to go back there in the daylight sometime. The church grounds were the prettiest we have seen here. Sister Snow and I visited and sent the men in to the priesthood meeting. She reminds me of Evelyn Stevens - maybe because she was a kindergarten teacher and has that loving, teaching, serving spirit! As we passed through town every bar and dance place had music blasting. Of course they didn't have doors that kept the noise in because they all have metal doors they pull down when they close up. We took a different route home and saw the hotels and casinos lit up along the way. We have never seen those so that was interesting to see. The resort areas here aren't places we usually frequent. Gas is four to five US dollars a gallon so we don't sight see unless we are driving to a meeting.
We got home to find the guard waiting at the gate with his shotgun to look in the car and make sure we belonged here. I know we are supposed to feel more secure with these armed guards but it makes me more nervous!
The water is off again. This time they say they are cleaning the system - which makes you wonder why that wasn't done in the beginning. Oh well....
The pictures are of Johnny Rockets, the church landscaping, and the water fountain system in churches here. The stake president told us they used to have cups by the water container but the kids would just use them and throw them around and it was getting too expensive to keep buying cups so now if you water from their "fountain" you have to take your own cup.
Spent the morning studying and gathering clothes to wash. Unfortunately when the clothes were ready be rinsed the water went off. The last time that happened I had wet clothes for two days and they really stunk! I finally just draped them over the chairs in our "clothes dryer" room and will have to wash them when we have water again.
When we met them at the Casa the Mahons were visiting with them. They had been looking for an apartment and hadn't found one. Sister Mahon asked if we had a swimming pool where we lived- we laughed - and said we were lucky to have water period. She said they had told them not to look at apartments in our building. Can you believe that???
There is little parking around Johhny Rockets but when we got into the parking lot they took the car and parked in underground parking. The atmosphere was fun - a jukebox with old Frank Sinatra songs and other old and new songs; balloons tied everywhere, and an entirely different clientele than you see at McDonalds. These were obviously more privileged young adults. Yuppies Scott says...
Most of the young men we have seen have very short haircuts but many of these kids were not black and had full heads of hair. It was actually rather strange to see so many young men with hair! This was a group of people here we have never seen - more Puerto Rican.
While we were eating our delicious hamburgers it started to rain again - it was almost like a mini-hurricane. The rain was coming down so hard, the wind was blowing the rain every which way.
Before we left the McDermits and the Glaziers came in for dinner and gave us a bad time for going earlier without them.
Driving here is scary at best but riding is even worse. The rain was leaving water on the roads making them slippery and hard to see but that did not inhibit these drives at all. I did discover it is worse sitting in the back seat!! We drove along the ocean out into the outskirts of the city which would have been beautiful if we could have seen it. There was standing water at least four inches deep on many,many sections of the road. Our biggest fear was the water stalling the car but the we were protected! It made me think of driving the missionaries to the temple back home because we never had bad weather conditions when they were with us. We finally got there and the town was so picturesque. I would love to go back there in the daylight sometime. The church grounds were the prettiest we have seen here. Sister Snow and I visited and sent the men in to the priesthood meeting. She reminds me of Evelyn Stevens - maybe because she was a kindergarten teacher and has that loving, teaching, serving spirit! As we passed through town every bar and dance place had music blasting. Of course they didn't have doors that kept the noise in because they all have metal doors they pull down when they close up. We took a different route home and saw the hotels and casinos lit up along the way. We have never seen those so that was interesting to see. The resort areas here aren't places we usually frequent. Gas is four to five US dollars a gallon so we don't sight see unless we are driving to a meeting.
We got home to find the guard waiting at the gate with his shotgun to look in the car and make sure we belonged here. I know we are supposed to feel more secure with these armed guards but it makes me more nervous!
The water is off again. This time they say they are cleaning the system - which makes you wonder why that wasn't done in the beginning. Oh well....
The pictures are of Johnny Rockets, the church landscaping, and the water fountain system in churches here. The stake president told us they used to have cups by the water container but the kids would just use them and throw them around and it was getting too expensive to keep buying cups so now if you water from their "fountain" you have to take your own cup.
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