Wednesday, January 24, 2007
-January 24th, 2007
-What a great day for our team-this was our day off so to speak and we did a day of total touring! WE started off early this AM and as we drove we knew it was a good day to tour because it was raining! So if we can't work we can tour!
-We went to the Mayan ruins and they were absolutely breathtaking! The ruins were up in the sky so high and had so many steps to climb etc., it was a great place to be and by now the sun was shining so wonderfully!
-Next we went to a village of old order Mennonites this area includes 100's of sq. miles.We went to a resturant called a Pondarosa for lunch and they had alot of old german food that could be ordered ,or you could just get regular food.Robert and I (Fonda) had fried chicken and french fries! We went to a hugh store of the Mennonites that sold any kind of food item you could want to get either regular, or by bulk. This store also included any kind of material you might need to make something, or sewing machine(tredle). this very large community settled here in 1958 is when this colony started.They drive horse and buggy, use tractors, 4-wheelers and motorcycles and no helments.They have hugh chicken houses, dairy operations etc. We visited farm implements businesses, and welding machine shops etc. It nearly blows your mind that out in the middle of no where there is this colony of old order mennonites sort of like back from our areas in the States.
-Mid-afternoon we visited a dairy store where they sell there own brand of ice-cream,Oh boy was it ever good.the team had various kinds,we had raisin and rum-some had mango, others strawberry, vanilla, raspberry, there were many kinds to choose from. 2 hugh scoops for $2.00/Belize dollars which converts over to $1.00/American dollar!Man what a bargain!
We left and on our way home we stopped at a womans house that was supposed to have baskets for sale! Well no baskets were found because hse had sold them all to the last group. It began to rain while we were there and don't you know it, our van got stuck in the mud! Some had to get our and push it out! We got back on the road and it was still raining, guess this was good for getting the mud off our van! Bob pulled off at a hugh city dump along the way home, drove back in a little way over smoking and burning trash all around us with 100's of vultures lurking around.He blew the van horn and we watched as heads started peeping up far away, then people began walking toward the van.It really broke your heart to know that people lived amoung the trash the way these people did.Kids came to the van.We gave them food and a couple bags of clothes.At first I think they did not realize the bags had clothing in it.We thought hey-- -they are not picking it up.We thought they thought it was just more trash! So one guy got out opened the bags and they saw then it was clothes.I thought I would just start crying to see this pitiful sight!This was an area of approx.several sq.miles of trash and trash heaps, burning and smoldering etc. and to think that children and families lived here.
I know we came home tired, but it was a blessed feeling of tired-we have a place to lay our heads at night, out of the rian and wind.We have clothes to wear and nice homes and nice families.WE are so Blessed.WE had devotions with the kids tonight,played games and now we are winding down for bed! It's hard sometimes to go to sleep when you have seen so many things it's hard to process it all!i know tonight I am very grateful for all the Blessings that God has allowed me to have so far while on this earth! God Bless your night-signing off your hostess Fonda Cassidy for the team.
-What a great day for our team-this was our day off so to speak and we did a day of total touring! WE started off early this AM and as we drove we knew it was a good day to tour because it was raining! So if we can't work we can tour!
-We went to the Mayan ruins and they were absolutely breathtaking! The ruins were up in the sky so high and had so many steps to climb etc., it was a great place to be and by now the sun was shining so wonderfully!
-Next we went to a village of old order Mennonites this area includes 100's of sq. miles.We went to a resturant called a Pondarosa for lunch and they had alot of old german food that could be ordered ,or you could just get regular food.Robert and I (Fonda) had fried chicken and french fries! We went to a hugh store of the Mennonites that sold any kind of food item you could want to get either regular, or by bulk. This store also included any kind of material you might need to make something, or sewing machine(tredle). this very large community settled here in 1958 is when this colony started.They drive horse and buggy, use tractors, 4-wheelers and motorcycles and no helments.They have hugh chicken houses, dairy operations etc. We visited farm implements businesses, and welding machine shops etc. It nearly blows your mind that out in the middle of no where there is this colony of old order mennonites sort of like back from our areas in the States.
-Mid-afternoon we visited a dairy store where they sell there own brand of ice-cream,Oh boy was it ever good.the team had various kinds,we had raisin and rum-some had mango, others strawberry, vanilla, raspberry, there were many kinds to choose from. 2 hugh scoops for $2.00/Belize dollars which converts over to $1.00/American dollar!Man what a bargain!
We left and on our way home we stopped at a womans house that was supposed to have baskets for sale! Well no baskets were found because hse had sold them all to the last group. It began to rain while we were there and don't you know it, our van got stuck in the mud! Some had to get our and push it out! We got back on the road and it was still raining, guess this was good for getting the mud off our van! Bob pulled off at a hugh city dump along the way home, drove back in a little way over smoking and burning trash all around us with 100's of vultures lurking around.He blew the van horn and we watched as heads started peeping up far away, then people began walking toward the van.It really broke your heart to know that people lived amoung the trash the way these people did.Kids came to the van.We gave them food and a couple bags of clothes.At first I think they did not realize the bags had clothing in it.We thought hey-- -they are not picking it up.We thought they thought it was just more trash! So one guy got out opened the bags and they saw then it was clothes.I thought I would just start crying to see this pitiful sight!This was an area of approx.several sq.miles of trash and trash heaps, burning and smoldering etc. and to think that children and families lived here.
I know we came home tired, but it was a blessed feeling of tired-we have a place to lay our heads at night, out of the rian and wind.We have clothes to wear and nice homes and nice families.WE are so Blessed.WE had devotions with the kids tonight,played games and now we are winding down for bed! It's hard sometimes to go to sleep when you have seen so many things it's hard to process it all!i know tonight I am very grateful for all the Blessings that God has allowed me to have so far while on this earth! God Bless your night-signing off your hostess Fonda Cassidy for the team.
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