3 school days are remaining before we leave Antigua for the children's home. We are very much looking forward to this break! As far as language school goes, we are still learning the subjunctive - which is really difficult! We'd try to explain exactly what the subjunctive is, but there really is no equivalent in the english language.

As for the past couple of weeks, we attended language school and took a small excursion to the beach. After a 2.5 hour bus ride which also included a 1.5 minute ferry ride we arrived to the pacific coast. It was a bit akward to enjoy 90 plus degree weather in December!! It was really nice to have an afternoon outside of our regular surroundings. The black sand beaches were decently vacant of people and a bit to warm to walk on barefooted. On the bus ride home that evening our bus driver kept looking out of the driver's side window - he then told us that we should look up the mountain where we saw a huge eruption thanks to volcano Fuego. It was much like red fireworks - and was really neat watch the lava change from bright red to black as it cooled while running down the side.

Other than that - it's been pretty routine. We are very much looking forward to being at the children's home and helping with the gobs of things that must be done for Christmas and New Years.

Here are a few pics from our little trip:





We made plans to not get in the water, as we were only there for a few hours. We didn't want to have to take extra clothes and such. This picture is Lee "not getting in the water".