Thursday

The men working hard

Today was our last day doing work at the church.  We were able to complete the drainage system for the gutters.  We started putting the gutters up and it will be completed by the church sometime this week.  We got most of the concrete filled into the sidewalks.  While the men did the tough work, the girls went over to the daycare center and interacted with the kids or "los ninos".  After the work was completed, the church provided us a delicious lunch and held a good-bye ceremony.  They gave us all t-shirts and Adam recieved a special gift from Pastor Miguel.  That particular gift represented faith and Adam was very grateful for it.  After leaving the church, it was finally our time to get touristy.

Pastor Miguel giving Adam his gift

We started our adventure with a trip to the gold museum.  The gold museum was located in downtown San Jose.  The museum featured fascination collections of gold from Pre-Columbia era.  After that, we headed to the market to buy some souvenirs.  All of the souvenirs we bought ranged from soccer jerseys to handmade purses and trinkets. We ended our day with a dinner with our guests from the Presbyterian committee who helped us plan this trip. Tomorrow, we will take a tour of the rain-forest.  Keep us in your prayers and we hope all is well with you.

Gold artifacts from the museum

Market in downtown San Jose

Hope all is well,
Grant and Michael