beach

When we were heading back to Haiti, we tried to remind Lily of all the fun things there are to do here (which admittedly, is a list kind of hard to come up with :).  The swimming pool at the hotel in town, the three little girls that live across the street, playing with Shay, running on Uncle Don's sidewalk, collecting mangoes, the beach, chasing chickens, playing soccer with the guys, etc.

 The one she's reminded us of everyday since was "BEACH!" so today, after a bit of a long first week (upon starting my blender yesterday roaches came pouring out of the base...I am bugged out!!!) and continued stifling weather, we were on the road by 8, making the 17 mile trip to the beach in record time...95 minutes.  It was breezy, beautiful and Lily was grinning and laughing ALL day, which means we were to.

The beach is one of the only places we've found in Haiti where one, it's always breezy and cool, and two, we feel more like we can disappear.  There's hardly ever anyone there, and we can just enjoy our day and not think about work, no one stares at us, we're not "missionaries".  We also got to enjoy some good time today with friends Meg and Wilbur.

 Sofie enjoyed sleeping at the beach.  And that's pretty much it.

Tomorrow morning we're off to one of our favorite churches, Vilmer's in town.