Pioneer School Pictures

I found a couple pictures from pioneer school on my computer. I thought you guys might enjoy them. 

Here dad and I are during lunch. 

And this is Luz and I. We were in the same service group and became good friends over those two weeks. 

The Beach

I know we are water bugs. We've been going to the beach too. There are two main ones we visit. Las Olas (the waves) is the closer beach, only about an hour away. But the waves are stronger there. We saw surfers last time (I'll try to get a hold of some of the pictures we took of them). Las Lajas is the other beach. Its so big. You can walk for miles and never see the end of it. Plus its practically empty. We get our own private beach. And the wave are gentler, so Cooper and Kaia can enjoy the swimming. We went this past Friday. Here are some of the pictures.

Here us girls are in the water. The temperature was perfect, we  never wanted to get out. From left to right: Whitney, Kaia, Brandie, Me, Jolene, Alyvia (in front of Jolene), Mom, Cooper, and Jane (holding Coop). 

And here we are right after we got done eating. Working on our tans. We got there around 11 and stayed until around 5 so we got plenty of sun exposure. 

Carla alked the beach practically the whole time. She found some amazing shells, and check out that sand dollar! 

Some played Frisbee.

Here is a crab they found. There were a ton, but every time we got near they'd run in their holes. 

Here Adam and Justin are trying to get pipas down from the near by palm trees. They got quite a few. 

Here Alyvia has one. 

And Jolene. That's Dave by the way. He's Carla's husband, but I don't think we have any pictures of her today. 

And here Brandie and I are tanning. 

 I hope you guys enjoyed the pictures. We really had a great time. We'd love to hear from you all. Miss you, Aribey

The River

I thought you guys might enjoy these. I plan on back-tracking and putting some old posts on from June and July, but I have to get the photos first. But I do have these. 

We have been going to the river a lot lately. It's in a town called Gualaca. On both sides of the river there are rock  ledges you can jump off of. Here are some pictures from our latest venture. 

The water is actually really deep, but there is one rock to get out on. 

Here we are jumping in. It's SO FUN!! Even the two girls (ages 5 and 7) jumped in.  There are higher spots too to jump in at, this is one of the shorter ones. 

Here are some of the Panamanians that were jumping in. There were about 8 of them that  would dive in , in a row one right after another. It was impressive but we were all so nervous for them. 

It was really fun. We are all addicted now. We constantly want to go back.

Pioneer School

I know this is late, but we've been really busy (I know I say that every time). I'm gonna try to catch up starting with June. We went to Pioneer School during the first two weeks. Here's a summery I'll post a few more pictures later. 

Pioneer School was amazing. Even better than I expected. We had 29 in our class- 11 sisters and 18 brothers. It was really nice since it was a school filled with need greater. Everyone in our class had come from somewhere else to help where there was a need, in this case either Panama or Costa Rica. Except for a couple who also were helping where the need was greater by serving in the foreign language field of English. The class took place in David (about 30 minutes down the hill). We thought it was going to be Panama City, but when they decided to double us up with Costa Rica David was a more central location. Which worked out well for us- we got to stay at home and study in the cool air of Boquete. The only disadvantage of having it in David is the heat. We were dying. There's only one hall in Panama (that I know of) that has air conditioning. And we were not in that hall. So that was a bit difficult. But during the class when we were sitting around concentrating we didn't feel as hot.

Our teacher were great they were both funny and kept the class lively. We sat in a U shaped formation with tables so we could all see each other and still not have to have our books in our lap. I will try to get together some pictures of the class to show you all.