This is a bag of cherry flavored candy.

About 6 weeks ago we took Toby to get his hair cut.




About 2 weeks ago we noticed the hair around his eyes grew back faster than anywhere else.

Mountain Climbing!

Yesterday we went with some friends to climb a local mountain. Since most of the mountains we have seen in this country seemed overrated (in this country's defense we have only seen 1 other mountain), we thought it would be no problem...especially since we were told the entire climb would be up stairs. It took us about 8 hard hours to climb that stinking mountain! These are not normal stairs. They are narrow and very steep. Since L is pregnant we tried to stop and rest often, but even our non pregnant friends needed just as many rests as well. The view from the top of the mountain was well worth everything, but more than once I think everyone wondered if we would survive the mountain. L's knee hurt really bad towards the end, and K thought he may have to carry her down.

This is a photo of us at the beginning - nice and fresh looking!

After about 5 hours of climbing stairs up the side of the mountain, we finally made it!!!













K taking in the view.














This is a photo of L "hanging" off of the side of the mountain.

















All in all, it was an exhausting but rewarding day. We started climbing the stairs about 8:30 am, and we finished around 4:30 pm. We thought the stairs up the mountain were never ending, but then we thought the same thing about the stairs down the mountain.

This is a bicycle repair “wagon,” since they don’t have bike repair shops here. People bring their bikes here when they get a flat tire, etc. There are many of these little wagons around the city. I am pretty sure they stole the KFC umbrella.

Big News!

So, in case you don't yet know, we are pregnant. In our simple little city they do not actually print off sonogram photos, so this is a digital photo of the computer screen. Also, they do not do blood pregnancy tests, so seeing this 3 weeks ago confirmed our pregnancy. It came as a bit of a surprise, but we are really excited. The baby is due in January 2009.













Recently we took a village trip. This photo of L is a good example of how much we stand out in this country...we don't blend in.













We wanted to post a bunch of other photos, but our internet is not moving too fast. We will try to update again in a couple of days. K & L