Wednesday

Started out to Santa Familia! Pure awesomeness! This school is about 40 mins away from Windy Hill (where we stay) on very rough roads. Today was a day of real triggers of memories from living on the Navajo nation for 3 years.  The roads, the people and the school were so much like my 'home' it was a little hard to process. I will probably write more about all of that later.

We came back from there after celebrating mass and having a field day (literally). Courtney and Alyssa planned a lot of fun games and the kids were introduced to a frisbee and parachutes. They loved the tennis balls and hoola hoops, too!

Lunch was great and then a smaller group of us headed into San Ignacio to shop a bit. Many of the shops we've visited before are no longer there. We had a fun outing and got back in time to rest, recooperate and shower before heading to the seminary.

David celebrated a wedding of some Belizean friends of ours at the seminary. Fr. Leo said the mass. Windy Hill catered dinner there. I'm not much of a fish fan, but dinner was awesome! We had a cake for them and then a small bonfire with s'mores. It was cool to see some of the different traditions.

Part of the ceremony involved having a lasso placed over both the bride and the groom.  It was really need to see them "bound" together.  The tinkling of glasses in the US means the bride and groom are supposed to find each other and kiss.  The thought of that truly embarrassed our friends, so each time they gave each other a hug and smiled very big.  It was so sweet.

Afterwards the seminarians gave their testimonies and we had s'mores!

Many blessings!