Moving Day

Found this little guy in the driveway

His life was short lived

This is drinking water purchased at your local gas station

The road up to Jose's friends house - it will eventually be paved

That yellowish image is the house we were driving to

had to wait for cattle crossing

The road up to the top - that is a house on the left

Dinner?

We're getting closer.....

Why did the Chicken cross the road?

This is a narrow road!

At the top

Photos don't do the place justice!

Karen - One of Nikki's girls

Jordan 

Beautiful bouganvilla!

This weekend we helped one of Jose's co-workers move.  The guy is American and has 2 teen-ish girls living with him and he is married to a Honduran woman with 5 kids.  From what I can understand 3 of her 5 kids live with them for a total of 5 kids + mom and dad.  The guy has been a super huge help to us - letting Jose borrow their van several times to pick up furniture and us from the airport.  The wife, (who speaks no English) has helped Jose on several occasion to negotiate things in town - since locals always get a better price on everything.  The reason why they were moving was because the wife wasn't so happy living so far out of town.  Their current home was AMAZING which is why I wanted to share.  The home is positioned way up the side of a mountain at at the very tip top of a dirt road.  The house is surrounded by a wall of course and inside was this huge compound perfect for all those kids and a large family.  The grounds were incredible - beautiful flowers everywhere, a poinsettia tree, bouganvilla of all colors, fruit trees- limes, coconuts, mangos etc.  A fountain with a small pool, a playground for the kids,  basketball court, paved areas to ride bikes, and the most picturesque view of all of Comayagua.  The inside of the house had plenty of bedrooms but what was so incredible was grounds of the home, and you would not believe that they only paid $500.00/month rent!  The home that they are moving to was much smaller and i'm still not quite sure where they will put all the people, but the lady seems more than happy to be moving there.  Jose left me at the new house with the kids while he made trips with his friend up and down the mountain in the van.  They moved furniture and all of their belongings (none of which were packed) and we helped to unload when they got back.  So many people were there to help at the new house - I have no idea who they all were - several extra kids, and adults of all ages (many just spectating), and none spoke English.  People were painting, fixing faucets in the tiny bathroom and buzzing all around.  I was a little uncomfortable and not sure what to do with myself so I offered to help clean.  My job was to help "limpiar" or clean by wiping down the kitchen cabinets.  The mom cut a t-shirt in 1/2 using a machete and she and I wiped down all the cabinets in the house using only water.  I learned a new word - "sucio" which means dirty or filthy and that it was.  The kids all ran around playing tag and having a ball.  The two American girls speak perfect Spanish and English and helped me to translate from time to time.  The rest of the kids spoke no English and none of them seemed to care.  The older American Girl, Maggie is going to work with Jordan each week at our home teaching him Spanish.  He seems to really like her so I think it will work out great.