Puerto San Jose

Today we had a day off so Mario and I decided to visit his family and his home church pastors. It was also a trip for Mario to get a few more things from his house and bring them back to the base where he is now living full time. We started out at 8:15 this morning by getting on a local public bus, similar to this (ours was not actually this full, thank goodness, but this is a normal everyday occurrence here)

Then we got on the Metro to arrive at another bus station where we took another bus like this.

We rode that bus to another city where we then got on a minibus... let's just say it was an adventure to get there!

When we finally arrived in Puerto San Jose we went to visit with Mario's pastors who have their service on Saturday evenings so they were free to visit this morning. It was a good time and the kids were having Sunday school so I took a picture with some of them as they were leaving.
We had a good time hanging out with some of Mario's church friends and his pastors but it was soon time to go to Mario's house to see his family and collect his things.

Mario's family lives about 20 minutes away from the center of town where we were to begin with, so instead of having to pay for a ride in a taxi-like van, Mario asked one of his friends if we could borrow his motorcycle. It was another adventure to get to his house because it has been really rainy so there were LOTS of puddles along the dirt road. I did my best to take a picture as we were riding along.


As we were on our way we noticed there was a ring around the sun. I also did my best to take a picture of that but since all my attempts were in between puddles and bumps in the road, it never came out just as I would have liked.
We finally returned back home around 5:30 after a great day full of adventure!