The Wild

They are paving the road into our neighborhood... which is a whole blog post in itself with all the craziness that entails. :) But the long and short of it is, we have not been able to park our car in our carport for over two weeks now... which means, long hot walks to where ever our car is parked. Since last Monday they have closed the road altogether and created an "alternative road" which means that they hacked out a bunch of forest and now we go traipsing through the jungle to the main road in town and cross it to get to our church where our car is parked at the pastor's house. It's less than half a mile, but adds considerably to any trip we take away from the house... so we've been staying home a lot. :)

Last week Brant had somewhere to be and the boys had co-op, so it was up to ME to get them carted through the jungle. I was a bit nervous, but decided to make it an adventure, so I told the boys we were going to "The Wild" (they are big fans of the movie "Madagascar") :) It was an adventure and we had fun "exploring" and they did great and we got to our car and I was just praising the Lord... and then the boys were SO upset...

We didn't see any lions.

:)

I took these pictures today when Brant went out with me.... we had to take Caleb to the clinic as he's been sick the past couple days and the boys had language class. It wasn't quite as dramatic as they had cut the brush back even more than they had before, but it was still an adventure.





It's really not a bad walk early in the morning, but when you get home at noon and have to haul groceries (like today!) and hot, tired little boys are hungry, it's a bit of a challenge. I've gotten to where I buy cold juice boxes for them while I'm out so they'll have something to drink on the walk. Very much looking forward to having the whole project done - they tell us it will be another two weeks!!!