Sunday, July 27, 2008

Our new home!

This is a picture of our new home in the town of Cub.. The town has only about 8,000 people in it and it is at the end of the road...and it feels like it too. It is much more rural then anything I have seen in Mexico (Wilf has seen places like this in his travels as a kid through Mexico). I didn't take any pictures of the town yet becuase I want to be a bit careful with that. But even though we live in the center of town, we have cows, roosters, horses and other animals all right around our house! I was awakened the first morning by a noisy rooster announcing the dawn at a very early hour.
On our walk to church this morning there was a large cow meandering ahead of us and on our way home, a cowboy rode by on his horse.
We live in a large walled in compound with the other missionaries, Nico and Lia K. They have been here for 8 years or so and plan to return to Canada in December. We have been so thankful for them and their three kids. Above is a picture of our house. Under the small overhang you see in the picture, is our back door. Our front door is a small door that opens onto the street. We share a nice large yard with the K's. There are lots of trees on the compound as well as a trampoline. I will post some more pictures of the house itself after I get things a bit more organized!

This is Nico and Lia's house. Our houses are almost identical.

Thankfully, there are a lot of fruit trees on the compound. I was feeling a bit discouraged after our initial shopping trip becuase the food is so much more expensive here and some things we are used to getting are just not available at all. One thing that is really expensive is juice. I decided we would survive the year just drinking water. But I was very pleasantly surprised to see the great fruit growing in our own backyard. Our house was equipped with a juicer, so the kids and I have been busy making limeade (limes in the picture above) and fresh squeezed orange juice (orange tree pictured below). Now maybe
we should get a cow so that we can get milk as well.... :)


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