Restaurant

This is a restaurant out over the water that we ate at when we were at Isla Grande.

Canal Railway

This was taken on the train that runs along the canal.  Grandma would have loved this.  (Sorry we could not fit that in when our special visitors(the Gatlins) were down here... That just means you have to come back.)  The whole car is a window so you can see out on all sides.  And don't worry; I lost my awesome JLo sunglasses so you will not see them again.  I know they are a bit much but they were cheap and I needed sunglasses.

A Perfect Day

This is just a picture of a beautiful day in our site.  I took this on the way to the river after the seminar.  It was a perfect day for a swim.

Agribusiness in site

This is from the agribusiness seminar we did in our site.  We had a good turnout.  There were about 15 people who participated both Saturdays.  I believe I am laying some accounting knowledge on them in this picture.  Looks like a spreadsheet, eh?

Advance Cleaning

This is the kind of toothpaste that Lee likes and he can´t find it here in Panama. Our favorite thing to get from people is letters but if anyone feels like sending a little something with a letter you could get a bigger envelope and drop a tube of toothpaste in there and I know Lee would greatly appreciate it.

Hummingbird

This is a baby hummingbird. They said that the egg she hatched out of was about the size of a jelly bean. We see hummingbirds just about every day but this was the first time I had ever seen a nest.

Los Patronales

In Panama most or all towns have a patron saint. Ours is San Antonio de Padua. Every saint has his or her day of the year. The nine days leading up to this day are called the novena and they have church in a different part of town every evening leading up to the big day. On the big day they have church in the morning and activities the rest of the day. For us the next activity was the feria. The first picture shows all of the fruits, vegetables, and other produce that people brought to sell at the feria. This was the nicest one we have seen in our community. Usually they all show up with their stuff in bags and then they just pass them back and forth because they know who wants what and then everything is gone and Lee and I are left trying to figure out what just happened. This time we could tell when it had started and Lee got up there in time to get some avacados and a papaya.

This is the after picture. Everything was sold, even the bananas and platanos that were left hanging
After the feria there is a little parade through the center of town. They were really excited that we were taking pictures of it because they have never had pictures of it before so we are going to print some out for them.