A Rainy Sunday

Do you like the sound of rain at night? If so, you would have slept great! If not, you would have slept like a baby (up every other hour!) because the rain was relentless last night. There's something about the pinging sound of millions of raindrops on a tin roof that either drives you crazy or sings you to sleep.

For Barrett and me last night, we were out cold!

B and I were on breakfast duty so we had to hop out of bed early. We kept thinking the rain would slow down but it didn't. So, it was time to run uphill in the pouring rain.

The rain was so bad that a stream overtook the path we walk to get to the main building. The breakfast of yogurt, toast, coffee, juice, and apples was pretty easy to set up and clean up. I was amazed at how much Barrett had learned about the kitchen from cleaning up earlier in the week. Typical line from me: "Barrett, where does this go?" Barrett: "Over there, Dad!"

We had intended to go to a church today (it meets at a rum factory!), but the weather and transportation shortage precluded the trip.

So we had a service in the prayer chapel on the base. It was an uplifting time of worship, sharing, and hearing a message from a wonderful pastor named Jim.

Lunch was in the main building: spaghetti sauce over baked potatoes.

There are two girls Barrett's age that showed up the day before. Mikaela and Sarah and Barrett started a movie this afternoon, which you can view by clicking here.

Once the flood waters receeded we took a quick trip to a local beach. The waves were incredibly powerful, which brought back memories of a neighbor's brother who was paralyzed body surfing. We had fun but didn't go too crazy. We had to opportunity to talk with a local guy about his faith.

Here are two pictures of Barrett on the beach:

Here's the big guy!


After an interesting dinner that I can confidently say had potatoes, curry, and some sort of meat (I'm betting on chicken), we're having a relaxing night playing pool, playing Uno, and hanging out. The "Seeds" group from Canada is going to make a presentation at 8:00pm to show how they go into the local schools to minister. I'm looking forward to it (with some awe considering how our country wouldn't even consider allowing a group to come to a school to talk about spiritual things).

Here are two quick pics from last night... This was Barrett eating marlin:

And with Grandpa for ice cream afterwards:


We miss Mommy, Z, and Christa so bad we can hardly stand it. Unfortunately the Net2Phone account is still blocked for security reasons. Sigh. Hopefully we can connect by Messenger later tonight around 8:30pm Central time.

Back to work tomorrow!