Costa Rica Day 4

Not too much time to blog tonight. We have been going since sun up.

So today was a super long awesome day. We went to, what we thought was an orphanage. We found out that the children there are from ages 9 mo. - 22 years old. They are orphans but not up for adoption as adoption in Costa Rica is virtually impossible. This is a christain home, run by a wonderful christian couple. They take care of 25 children there and treat them all as their own. The kids call them mom and dad the children treat each other as brothers and sisters. The backgound of the children is so sad but we were glad to see that they are with loving people who teach them about Jesus and also teach them english. The little girl that is in the picture with me was so precious. I love to hug - so of course it didn't take me long to hug her, but she said she really doesn't like hugs. I made her smile about it and it turned into a game. By the time we left she came up to me to give me a hug. I told her "I knew that you would love my hugs." And reminded her how much Jesus loves her. I told her that I would pray for her. Isn't she just precious?

These are just a few of the young guys that our guys played soccer with. Wow can they ever play soccer and you could tell that they were thrilled to have a team to play against.

This young lady on the left said she was 22 years old. (don't know if that was true or not) She was so precious too. Her name is Cindy and she wanted to meet everyone. I just loved reminding her how beautiful she is. She smiled!

Some of our girls spent a long time making jewelry with the girls. They loved the beads and the attention.

Everyone on our team used their own money for our missionary to take us for one fun event. We went to a rainforest and went on a zip-line. But they didn't tell us that it was more than a zip-line. It was a serious hike. And I really mean serious hike. The view here is what we zip-lined over. Yes, very high. We had to climb up to get to the top.

This is one of the platforms that we started out on. Just so you know, I was super scared to do this. But it was a blast - and I was flying through the sky 300 high - I just took in the incredible view.

Angela and I almost ready to go in our dorky helmets. :) After we got our helmets our guide took us through quite the terrain to get to the top. Rope climbing, running through the woods, over rocks and the river. No joke - he kept telling us "come on, lets go, run." Gee - he does this every day and he wanted us to run. He was hysterical.