Day 11
Monday
Eleazar, the bus driver, feeding a cow
This morning we met at the La Estrella church and spent over an hour going over our songs correcting certain parts where we didn’t quite have it properly. We also worked on correcting some pronunciation.
Practicing
Then we headed up the mountain. We got on some extremely twisty, narrow roads. They were nicely paved, but the architect must have been a great admirer of skinny snakes. The interesting thing, yet again, was the passing despite the curves. As we slowly climbed, we were surrounded on every side by lush green rain forest. Soon we came to a majestic waterfall crashing through two steps to a large pool below. We stopped there for about 20 minutes and then continued.
The falls
A spider
The curves only became sharper—at one point the driver had to back up to get around one. When we got to the top of the range, we had a beautiful view San Jose nestled in the valley below. There were clouds in all sorts of unusual places which only added to the beauty. We began to descend into Heredia/San Jose and began to pass shanty towns and bits of city. It was unusual to transition rapidly from narrow city streets to rain forest and back again. We stopped at a small restaurant in Heredia and ate a meal of a quarter of a fried chicken per person.
Descending into San Jose
Marcel and sister Carita sleeping on bus
Eating supper
Kevin following my instructions on what was needed to be a “real” photographer
After that we went to downtown Heredia—its plaza—and spent two hours shopping. I spent some of that time picking up an epinephrine (adrenaline) injection—which my RN mom recommended—for Jenna in case of an emergency in which her throat would totally close. I also spent a bunch of time at an internet cafe. The shopping around the Heredia plaza is geared more for locals than tourists and there wasn’t much of what we were looking for.
That night we went back to Elijah’s Cave for the night. Jenna got quite a bit worse that evening, so we spent much of our dorm meetings praying for her. They took her to a Christian-run private hospital/ER in San Jose—only a couple of minutes away. They put her on a new drug and it instantly cleared her problems up! However, the roads to Panama are really, really rough and the humidity very high, so Lucinda and Jenna are staying with the Kornelson family in Heredia for several days.
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April 11th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Thanks to everyone who has been praying for Jenna. We are so blessed that our God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think!!
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