Christmas Day

The boys in front of their Christmas tree & pressies

I have an hour before I meet Andy for lunch so blogging I go!

What a day. We had loads of prsents from home and built ourselves a little christmas tree type thing. You should have seen us, we were like two 10 year old little boys as we realised that Jude had sent us a table tennis net , bat and balls. There could not have been a more ideal pressie. Off we went and constructed our makeshift table tennis table. It was wonderful. Mind you Andy may not say that same thing!!!!! And Chocolate, we have not had any since being here, and such good chocolate at that. MMMMMM so wonderful.
It was a great day, we went for a stroll to the beach, but not even half way there we found a church in Las Pilas (our little village) and had a little pray, but then, we got involved in bulding the crib for the day and ended up playing baseball with a load of kids. It was wonderful and so nice to see the children smiling and happy and having loads of fun. Was a privalage to be apart of that.

Again table tennis ensured, but with the excitement of the dayI was in bed by 9. Its great to be so in step with the natural world. We rise at 5/6 when the sun rises (or when Guyo gets his lungs up to full strength) and go to bed not long after the sun has gone down. Its great and for a tree hugger like me its just right. I love it.

So our day yesterday was great and thank you to Jude and Andys parents for our gifts, so very welcome and made our day. Christmas pud todayI think. Yum Yum.´

There are a few photos here of our day and the last few days. Also I am going to try and upload some video but no idea if it will work. The kids are those that we helped build the crib for that night, but the geezer lying down by the side of the crib obvuiously had a bit too much to drink. There were a few blokes like this that day, which is a great shame and not the best example for the kids.

Still we had a great day and the kids loved. We were invited into a families home to look at their crib and it was so humbling, one bed for 6 of them and a mud floor. But yet such happiness. It was humbling but also nice. we are getting to knowe so many people, and just this morning a little girl who we were playing with yesterday got of the bus with her mom and started running towards me laughing and skipping. her mom had no idea so in my broken spanish I had told her how I knew her daughter. So nice though.

We bought a little prsent for our host, Elizabeth and Anaglasia. A little picture handpainted of the volcano. as really good to be able to offer something to her for all the hard work she is doing, and beleive me, we are eating very very well, so well that we are having to do some exercise to be sure we dont turn into the tellytubbies.