God Changed Our Plans

This morning as we were getting to leave the hotel, God changed our plans for San Pedro. It started pouring and pouring and pouring! Just the day before, Oscar's mom was showing me her trees and how dry everything was. She said that there hasn't been rain for about 3 or 4 months. I guess God decided to change that on our only day in San Pedro.

We were supposed to go to Maria's house (Oscar's niece) to see how she makes cheese, spend the day there and then leave after lunch. Maria lives down a dirt road (did I mention that the dirt is a beautiful shade of bright orange/red?) and Oscar was afraid that we'd get stuck with our cars, so we just stopped by his mom's for one last visit and then headed home several hours early. As I said to Karen on our way out, as much as I would have loved to have stayed and visited Maria, they needed rain more than we needed to visit. It was unbelievably dry there!

Now, for a few more interesting stories: all of you germ-free lovers will appreciate this one (or not). On the way there and back we stopped at some public restrooms. They had the toilet paper rolls sitting on the floor of each stall and then came through and swished the water to clean the floors, completely drenching the toilet paper! Uh, hello! What good is super thin toilet paper if it's sopping wet?! Thank the Lord for a HUGE pack of Kirkland brand baby wipes that happened to be in my bag! Most of our family has been hit with the runs now, so good quality toilet paper is extremely helpful.

On the way home today, there was a double decker bus that seemed to be playing games with us as we drove. The driver would zoom past us, and then slow down to pick up passengers and then zoom past us again. Well, we were just commenting to the boys about how dangerously this bus was driving when all of a sudden we saw him try to pass a slow, almost falling apart pick up truck. The truck swerved causing the bus to swerve AROUND A CURVE! We slowed down, prayed awfully fast and LOUD, and watched as it sprayed dust and dirt everywhere on the left side of the road, almost losing control! It continued to swerve while we continued to pray and thankfully, it regained it's control without any mishap! That was awfully scary! I thought for sure we'd see a major accident in front of our eyes!

Now we're back home safe and sound and we're trying to wash out all the red dirt from our clothes. I'm sure it will stain, but that's ok. We'll have permanant reminders of our time in San Pedro. I'll write more about the other things like the ant hills and the bread when I can post some pictures. We need the pictures!