Today was our day of "rest and relaxation". We went to the beach, Wahoo Bay. It was about 2 hours away. While riding through a very congested town, Allyson told us about these women who sell this Peanut Brittle. We spotted some, so Jim pulled over and they came up to the van. We bought 6 bags so everyone in the van could have some. It was SO good. Next time I'm in Haiti, I'll try to buy enough to bring back - - I wonder if I can get that through customs?
We finally got to a place in Haiti where the streets had lines painted on them and road signs! I wish I could have taken pictures of all the different ones I saw, but the Pedestrian Crossing sign was so cute I had to have it. This was actually taken on our way back from the beach, and we had to get Jim to pull over and almost stop in order to get the picture - HA HA! Thanks Jim!
Isn't it cute? It looks like little children!
Anyway, at Wahoo Bay, we just had a wonderful day in the sun. It's a resort with a hotel, but we just paid $15 for the day. We "claimed" our spot:
and we did things like this:
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| Swim in the ocean |
and this
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| Take beautiful pictures |
and this:
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| Amanda went snorkeling |
and this:
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| Johno (sp?) took a little photo shoot of himself (about 7 pictures) with Amanda's phone while she was snorkeling! LOL |
and this:
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| Swam in the salt water pool - the water was really cold. |
I forgot to mention, that the only "bad" thing that happened was that Pastor Dan got stung by a jellyfish while jumping off a small cliff into water that was not roped off. It was minor, and he was OK. We'd just been talking about the fact that they say if you pee on a sting like that it will take the pain away, so we told Dan he should go pee on his arm and he'd be fine!! He declined. LOL
On the way home Ken wanted to stop and take a picture of a building he'd seen on the way to the beach, so Jim pulls over so Ken could jump out and take this picture. The funny thing was that there was a Haitian man sitting on the wall Ken is standing on, and when Ken jumped out the the van, trying to be friendly, he says "BONSWAY!" really loud. It is supposed to be "Bonswa" - we laughed and laughed. We think the Haitian man was scared when this "blanc" jumped out of a van yelling "Bonsway!", so he moved down the wall and let Ken have his space. We laughed all the way back to Jim's.
That night after showering and putting on clean clothes, Jim, Debbie, and Donna took us to a pizza restaurant. I think they said it was actually a hotel that had the open air pizza restaurant. We ordered 3 pepperoni pizzas and 2 deluxe pizzas and only had 2 slices of pizza left. It was SO good!! There was a swimming pool right in the middle of the restaurant and Debbie said you could pay like $5 and just come swimming there. It was nice to see such a nice pool not at a resort. I told Donna, I could picture what their pool will be like someday!
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| Donna and Danny |
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| Pool at the restaurant |
It was a wonderful day just to relax and enjoy the beautiful side of Haiti. I kept saying "This is crazy. It's Jan. 3rd, and I'm laying on the beach in 90+ weather!" It was wonderful!!! It turned out to be a great day for Jim and Debbie and Donna as well. None of them had seen that part of Haiti before, and it did them good to sit and relax instead of working from dawn to dusk for everyone else. Jim and Debbie said they actually had over an hour just standing in the ocean and talking to one another. They said they hadn't really been able to do that since they got to Haiti and began working on their House of Hope. I think it did Donna a lot of good too, to just sit with her feet in the water and relax. I'm really glad we were able to go for ourselves, but to also be able to give them that time of relaxation - even it if was just for one day. WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!
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