First Sign of Land
After traveling for about 12hours we finally get a glimpse at our new...
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Pura Vida from the sky
Checking out the mountains we would soon be driving through
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Pura Vida from the sky
I think that might be a volcano... if not just let me believe it is
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Pura Vida from the sky
Lovely Costa Rican Landscape
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Pura Vida from the sky
I think that is the road we will be on soon... it looks winedy enough
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Pura Vida from the sky
Costa Rica from the sky
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Ready for the Bus Ride!?
So we find our host's and then load our luggage, yet through the...
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Bus Ride
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Group Shot
I still do not know how we all packed into this lil bus.. yea thats...
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Bus Ride
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Bus Ride
Is that car really small? or is the base of that tree gianormous?
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Bus Ride
Not sure what this is a statue of... but I will find out!
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Bus Ride
San Jose
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Bus Ride
San Jose
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Bus Ride
Making our way out of the city and into the mountains
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Bus Ride
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Bus Ride
Just admiring the huge mountains
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Bus Ride
didn't think it was going to be so hilly, or so bright!!
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Bus Ride
coffee fields scattered the landscape
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Bus Ride
Never seen such high dirt walls on a road
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Bus Ride
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Bus Ride
I saw this black plastic covering huge amounts of land. Apparently these are...
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Bus Ride
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Bus Ride
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Bus Ride
For some reason we were excited to see cattle, like we don't have them in...
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Quick Stop
Kelly and Meg in front of a lil store where we got to get a little...
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Quick Stop
Had to get that group shot in, eventhough we are missing a few!
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Quick Stop
I want this car!!!
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Bus Ride
Yea the whole ride was pretty much this winding!!
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Waterfall
Blair posseing for a pic by the waterfall
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Waterfall
Blair and Joe... yes that is a real waterfall behind them!!
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Waterfall
Looking out over the bridge we are about to cross!
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Waterfall
This waterfall was making Tom and Steph look like dwarfs!
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Waterfall
Ben and Me
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Waterfall
Standing right behind it... pretty intimidating
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Waterfall
Steph, Tom, and Mike (who looks extremely excited!!!)
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Waterfall
I think thats Lourdes still over there on the road!
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Waterfall
Looks like a naturally made little wishing well
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Rancho Tulipan
Mural that welcomed us to home for the next week
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Rancho Tulipan
I completely agree Chief Seattle!
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Saturday
First day on the site, and our first instructions were to dig some...
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Saturday
Notice that the thing we are digging with is NOT a shovel. We probably...
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Saturday
Just a glimpse of the house the family has been living in.
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Saturday
Tracie scooping out the dirt... or rather clay!
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Saturday
Colleen, Julia, Blair and Tom start shaving the bark off the trees...
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Saturday
The kids come out to see what we are up to.
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Saturday
Joe, Mike, and Eli get started on putting the cement floor down, in the other...
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Saturday
Mike, Joe (sorry for the butt shot), and Eli get started while Ben...
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Saturday
Julia is mastering the art of cutting the bark off using a huge machete
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Saturday
Caitlin, Amy, Steph, Blair, Kelly, and Tracie show off this muscles...
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Saturday
One of the lil puppies...
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Saturday
Julia takes a break to hang out with Sarheta, Marjon, and Sarah
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Saturday
We finally get the holes deep enough that we can put the beams in...
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Saturday
The girls give Raphael some space to inspect the hole
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Saturday
How can you not fall in love with these kids?
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Saturday
Ben and Mike goofing around with the kids!
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Saturday
Baby Megan and Me
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Sarheta and Me
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Kelly and Megan
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Joe and Megan... everybody just wanted to hold her!
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Saturday
The Family
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Saturday
Me and the kids
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Saturday
Its starting to look like a house
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Saturday
I just fell in love with these puppies!
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Saturday
Sarheta is showing the girls how to take the bark of the tree
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I have no idea how Rau was moving around up there so good!!!
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Lourdes having her afternoon coffee with Jasmine, Cecilia and the kids
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Yaweh in the banana tree
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How did you get up there Yaweh?
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Sunday
Jules stamping down the dirt floor in house #1
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Sunday
Eli and Ben starting the cement in house #1
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Sunday
Meg, Jules, and Joe going strong at our first outhouse hole
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Sunday
Can you believe that we dug holes with these things!!
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Sunday
All piled into one of the various trucks that brought us around in Los Chiles
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Sunday
Joe needed some help... so the kids jumped in and helped him with the gravel
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Sunday
Sarah helps out Joe by filling up a two liter bottle with rocks
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Sunday
Marjon... how cute is he!
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Sunday
I absolutely fell in love with this girl!!!
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Sunday
Joe showing Marjon how to use the camera
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Sunday
I was showing Sarah how to use my camera and she ended up taking this...
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Sunday
I think this is one of my favorite pictures.
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Sunday
Finally started putting the walls on the second house!
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Sunday
Moe up on the ladder... this woman could do everything... I think Raphael and...
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Sunday
Caitlin in the hole being the dirt monkey!!
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Sunday
Keep digging girls!!
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Sunday
Caitlin being propelled from the hole by Steph and Colleen
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Sunday
Joe in the hole....and its still not deep enough
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Jav in the hole trying to convince us to pull him out!
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Meg freaking out in the hole!
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Monday
Group shot of what it would look like looking up from the hole......
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Monday
Meg... fallen in hole
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Monday
Axil and Sarah
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Axil being the crazy kid he was, jumping around on this tin box
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