My Birthday

Last Saturday was my birthday and I had a great day. We started the day off at the beach a short walk from the house (there are over 100 steps to get there!). We did some snorkeling and playing there. I always get a little freaked out the first time. It's the mind over matter stuff for me. Once I focused on using the snorkel to breathe I was on my way. We saw a couple schools of fish and two sting rays!!

We had a nice brunch after that and put the kids down for a nap. That meant a little hand sewing time for me. Later that night Luke took me to a great restaurant for dinner. Great view and good food. The dessert was coconut ice cream with pineapple and rum.

The next day we went to the First Baptist church a couple blocks from our house. Needless to say, not many tourists there! We were approached by the only other white people there. They are surf missionaries from Australia. They have two kids the same ages as ours. Hopefully we will get to know them better. The service was all in Spanish so we didn't get too much out of it. The singing was good. Started out with a couple of hymns I didn't know but then into more contemporary music that we could sing along with. I took the kids to the children's program. It seemed like the biggest thing was "snack." More like a lunch. A large sandwich, jello pudding of some sorts, rice mild, and cake. It was more food then my kids could eat. Some of the kids did a good job at it. Don't know if that is one way of attracting people, hungry kids.

Anyway, today was Cinco de Mayo. I have learned that this really is an American holiday. There was nothing going on here. Just like any other day...odd.

Trying to make my grocery list tonight. My goal is to limit the cooking to once a week. This works for two reasons: the obvious that I don't have to cook a lot but also I only heat up the place one day a week. Yikes it gets hot. Dinner by the pool I guess.....