August update...

We are almost ready to start our last Trimester of Language School, and we'll be graduating on Dec. 12 , can't wait (to graduate, that is)!

In the meantime, we've had 2 weeks off, and our daughter Charity came to visit us. We rented a car during this time (which makes Roger feel like a real man to drive again:) The day after Charity arrived, we took a drive to the Caribbean coast and visited some friends at the Painted Beach & drove south almost to the Panaman border to Puerto Viejo and saw some monkeys in the wild. Then on Fri, we went to the rainforest and a bird santuary, where Charity petted a Toucan, and a blue Macaw licked Debbi's face and neck, all the while trying to trick her into slealing her glasses off her face!! On Sat, Sun, Mon we drove to the northern Pacific coast to Guanacaste and stayed at Flamingo beach. It was a beautiful drive through the mountains and we had lots of laughs, with Charity and Leslie (a fellow student going back to Colombia). We swam, got burned and ate fish and had lots of fun and saw beautiful sunsets! Then on Monday, Charity talked Leslie and I into white water rafting with her (Roger waited in the car)!! Only these weren't big rafts, they were like canoes with just one person and a guide in each raft! We all got dumped on the waterfalls, and Debbi also got dumped on one of the bigger rapids. We then started driving back south, and found a little "cabina" to sleep in (cost was $12/person!)...filled with gecos and bugs galore, cold showers, etc., but we had a bed (even though Debbi's bed was 1/2 full of water due to raqin pouring in through the wall:)...its all an adventure:) Then Tues., we stopped and saw the huge crocodiles before heading back home to San Jose. We laughed every day almost all day long (Poor Roger), and really enjoyed this time with Charity....memories we'll never forget. Thank you Lord for providing this time of a lifetime with our daughter.

Now its back to real life and studying, studying, studying....and the countdown to Dec. 12 begins!! Lets see....mmm...103 days left!