An unexpected trip.

After a couple weeks of painting our hangar and 60th anniversary party prepping (see previous post), it was nice to be called away to help on a good ol' airframe repair.  The day before our anniversary party, I was asked if I could leave in 2 days to travel to another base to help with repairs on one of our airplanes that had suffered some damage to its landing gear.  With Brin's blessing I gladly accepted.  Not knowing if it was going to be a 2 day or 2 week project, I boarded the bus with my collegue Victor for the 10 hour bus ride north.  

Fortunatly we found the damage to be minimal and the part that we feared might need to be replaced turned out to be airworthy.  We were able to make the repair in 3 days and get home before being missed too much.  It was encouraging to spend time with some of the pilots and their wives, getting a look at their lives and ministry.  

Here are some pictures of the work, followed by some pictures of what the girls have been up to recently. 

While I was away life went on mostly as normal, here are a few recent pictures from our everyday life...

After school Mia and her friends will often play with clay scavenged from the river, here she and her friend are making volcanoes.

Another recent activity has been watching iguanas bury their eggs in the sand.

Brin's 7th and 8th grade reading class wrote prayers on paper airplanes and flew them into the river. Inspired by the book they are reading, "I am Malala".

Trying our hand at cottage cheese after the fresh milk we got had curdled.

The girls on a dress up day.