La Primera Semana Esta Completa

The first week is finished! Yesterday, we went to a coffee plantation and were amazed at the amount of work required to plant, harvest, dry, roast, etc the coffee beans. It seems like a cup of coffee should cost about $10/cup instead of $1. The highlight of the day for Audrey was riding in the bus (really a mini-van) to the 3 different stops on the tour (she and Avery sat in the backseat by themselves strapped into regular seatbelts and they thought they were hot stuff) and the highlight for Avery was seeing the dog who lives outside of the packaging facility. Pix are below. (The farm looks more like a jungle with the coffee plants interspersed between all kinds of fruit trees and other plants. It was beautiful! When we did our tasting at the packaging facility, we all had to wear hair nets. Just adding that in so you don't think we've adopted a new fashion since being here).

I'm also attaching a couple of pix of what you think might be Audrey and Avery sitting on dining room chairs. That's really Alyssa and Wyatt (the only names Audrey will let us call them these days, except when Audrey decides to be Julia instead of Alyssa) on purple ponies in a riding ring at Audrey's birthday party (immediately after eating our ice-cream cones, vanilla cake, opening a present which was a musical book, and asking Snow White to get off of a particular horse so that Wyatt could get on). =) If you feel lost, I welcome you to come spend a day with us and Audrey's imagination. It's awesome! You might notice Audrey's big smile ... while she normally runs from the camera, when I told her that I was taking a picture of Sleeping Beauty, she smiled just like a princess.

Also is a random picture we took yesterday of a van who pulled off the road (in town) in front of us. Check out his rear left tire!