Transparent Freedom

7:15 wake up

7:45 breakfast

8:15 Bible study-Paul’s charge to Timothy (I think) any Christ follower…1 Tim 6 (disclaimer: I am far from there)

9:30 heavy rain forest hike to a waterfall

11:30 tour back through a couple of villages back to Ladera

12:30 lunch

2:00 beach – beautiful…started reading Furious Longing of God by Brennan Manning

4:15 got back to room for a quick swim

5:00 time for sunset watching

life is good.

God is furiously in love with you.

And last-a great reminder I got from the comments of yesterday’s post …

“to God alone belongs the glory” of these mountains, sunsets, beaches, rainforests, and life.

good bye until tomorrow

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Wow, ronnie’s tired can you tell??

resting on our out/indoor sofa

so let me tell you what REALLY happened today…

Well first about last night- We had a great birthday celebration- Ronnie tried so hard to get the BEST table at the restaurant, the champagne and wine ready- but all that kinda fell through. But It was still awesome, and the best part… the bannana cake. Awesome- (kinda dry- doesn’t compare to Meme’s)- But still awesome-

Anyways today basically in a nut shell… EXHAUSTION! We were both so tired when we woke up- but we had a rainforest tour to do and we weren’t going to miss it.

The guide through the rainforest was fine- but the lady that drove us up to the rainforest was the bomb- We learned so much- I have become my parents trying to know everything about a country and not miss a thing.

I now know all about bananas and how they grow, I actually saw a cinnamon tree, nutmeg tree, avocado tree, tattoo tree, guava tree that we ate off of, mahagony tree, carribean cedar tree, lemon grass, coconut tree, rubber tree, a beautiful waterfall, clove tree, starfruit tree, bread fruit tree, orange tree, vanilla tree, angel horn flowers, hibiscus, black eyed susans, mango tree… thats only half that i learned today. My brain couldnt really take it all in.. but we have pictures of everything.

After our tour we ate a great lunch and headed to the beach- Ronnie and i decided it was way too hot down there. We like being on the mountain instead- we aren’t people that can just lay in the sun for hours- we needed some action- however i did sneak in a 30 min nap.

We got back to the resort showered and now we are watching sunset just like always- we try to make it down to the lounge by 5 so we can blog and watch the sunset- then dinner at 6:30- (Doc Bear we are having a martini in honor of you. )

We will talk to you tomorrow- We have a tour of waterfalls and volcanoes tomorrow- Oh, My! We love you guys- xoxo.

How many trees/plants/flowers can you name off the top of your head (Rhonda & DocBear aren’t allowed to answer, we don’t have enough time to read your responses)?