There is no good way to retell a weeks worth of trip memories... so I'm just going to post pictures & snippets here & there. We praise God for an amazing opportunity - and thank so many of our family & friends who donated to & prayed over this adventure.
Our travel day started at 2:30 am... we left for the airport at 3:15. No complaints from these super excited girls - and no, they didn't sleep on the plane. We were so thankful that our luggage - personnal & suitcases full of donations - all made it to Tegus.
By that afternoon on the way to the farm outside of Tegus the girls took brief naps on the school bus we rode around all week in. They loved the bus - no seatbelts of course. After a year & a half of us holding Judah constantly, they used the trips in the bus to get lots of mommy & daddy snuggle time.
The long walk to the farm... here are Kylee & Anna stopping to visit & share candy with one of the families who lives just off the road. Below, Mae collecting pine cones - their backpacks stayed full of pine cones, flowers, etc all week because they are constant nature collectors. I was surprised that Honduras had kind of a piney woods feel. Lots of pine trees, but much more hilly/mountanous.
We spent a couple of hours spending time with Donnie who runs the Bread farm. He left his job & life in the states to spend a couple of years starting this farm because he is passionate about feeding the hungry in Honduras. They hope that the farm will someday be home to 5 Honduran families relocated from the dump, and provide food for the dump feeding days. So far Donnie is experimenting with a vegatable garden, composting area, fish pond/tank, and an aquaponics tank.
The aquaponics tank contains thousands of baby tilapia, and the other two tank will grow vegatables. I couldn't possibly explain it right, but somehow the fish & vegatables share needed nutrients for supercharged growth. This tank could provide 1 million pounds of food each year, and Donnie has plans to build 5 more. All of these experiments are done WITHOUT RUNNING WATER or ELECTRICITY! Everything is done with solar power & rain water collection methods.
The beautiful view from the back porch of the farm.
Molly, one of the teenagers on the trip, bought each of the girls a candy from the convenient store next to the restaurant where we ate dinner the first night. The teens & college students on this trip were so sweet to our 4 girls. They played with them, sat with them on the bus, & were precious examples of the kind of young adults we hope our girls become.
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