Beki's momma is here!

We spent 2 days in Amilan* and then hopped on a sleeper bus…the bus was Pepto pink – it was great. We did a little offroading here and there, so we were definitely flying all over the place and held on for dear life so we didn't fall out of our upper "bunk". So a brutal 17 and a half hours later, a couple bruises and a lot of holes in our knitting later we made it down the mountains to arrive in the Great Sandwich City to run some errands and pick up Beki’s mom who was flying in! The bus would have been great had we been driving on a flat road, but some of the roads really aren’t roads at all and I think there was something wrong with our bus….we would stop periodically and you would hear what sounded like hammering on the tires…
Have no fear we arrived safely and hung out with some friends in the City

after a bit of errand running....

We left the morning after we picked up Beki's momma from the airport just to stick her in a non-ac taxi to head 10 hours north to our home in 100 degree heat. It was a learning experience and we have developed a new love for high quality COLD H2O...

But, she made it!! She's gone shopping, is getting some suits made to wear, and adjusting to the culture so well. It has been a great eye-opener for us since some things just seem "normal" to us...she has reminded us that some of those things are definitely NOT normal in the states.

For example, one night Beki's mom was taking a bucket in the shower room and i was sitting in the dining room adjacent to it. She shouts through the door.."April? are you making noises out there? like playing with bubble wrap?" (i had received a package with bubble wrap in it is why she said that) and to this i replied... "No! Its just the ants in the bathroom door!" you can see the sawdust around the door... But hey, i'll take ants over "Night Enemies" any day... besides a couple of lizards have moved in and taken care of all other bug problems.