Vacation!

With Heidi and Isaac in the US for a few days, Matt, Annie, and Beth took the opportunity to get some R&R. Monday morning, we got up and had a chance to meet with the builder for a few minutes, then headed down to Panajachel. We hired a boat to take us across Lake Atitlan to the village of Santiago. The girls did some shopping there. Then we took the boat to another village, had lunch overlooking the lake, then boated back to Panajachel where we got in the truck and headed to Antigua.

We had dinner and spent the night in Antigua, then spent most of the day Tuesday shopping and just enjoying the atmosphere.

Wednesday morning, Heidi called to say that her flight into Houston was going to be delayed and that she probably would miss her connection to Guatemala. Luckily, though, the pilot made up some time in the air and with some OJ Simpson moves (the running through the aiport moves, not the... ahem... other "alleged" moves), she made it to her connection and down to Guatemala on time.

The gang here in Guatemala had done some grocery shopping, including the purchase of a new microwave (one that actually works - the old one heated things up only slightly faster than putting them in the sun - and most of the buttons had quit working, so hopefully your desired time only had the numbers 3, 6, or 0 in it...), so after picking up Heidi and Isaac, we left immediately for home. We only had to wait about an hour for construction, so it wasn't too bad.

This morning, the girls went to ASELSI and Matt and Isaac stayed home to supervise construction. It seems that our builder got sick this week and is currently a patient in the next-door hospital, so we'll go check on him during visiting hour this afternoon.

Tomorrow is Heidi's OB/GYN clinic at the Hospital Buen Samaritano and we'll have to say good-bye to Annie. She has been a real pleasure to have around and we know that she will make a great missionary doctor (that's her plan). No worries, though, we have another student coming on Sunday afternoon who will be here for the month of March.