Another Week Gone By

Here is what we saw early in the morning on our Anniversary!  What a beautiful and holy place to spend the day.

Here we are with Elder DeCoud the first missionary from Paraguay.  It is August 17, and when we took the picture he said this was the anniversary of his baptism 57 years ago.

This is titled La Paraguaya, is was painted by Juan Manuel Blanes. It symbolizes the terrible destruction of their people and nation in the Triple Alliance War.

Here is the sight that made me smile...(this says we are in a foreign country). The curbs were painted one day ! The paint was every where. Warren couldn't stand the mess.  He said it looked like they sprayed it on from a truck driving by(may be!!!!) 

Here is the vehicle I like seeing..... a motorcycle truck. Hurry get a picture I am saying to Warren and then a few minutes later a better shot of two!

Don't you want one of these for running errands or hauling the kids to the park!!!! I need my camera with me more often as I want to remember the little things that make me smile!!!!

Here is the view out side our Building

This is our Apartment Building.  We are on the right tower on the fourth floor which is the second set of windows from the top. That is ours right above the trees. The home next to us shares the wall with our building..Many homes and buildings have shared walls.  Anyway that home has a pool in the back yard, but it is quite small  about double the size of a hot tub.

This is the entrance and the name I read as we arrive home.

Here is one of the banana trees in a large bricked in yard.  There are probably a dozen trees.

There are the bananas growing . They are pretty small about 6 to 8 inches.

Look at the size of that tiny pineapple.  That is the norm here.  They do have large pineapples that are imported from Chile. The squash is going to be used to make pumpkin like cookies.  Yum!

I thought you would like to see the feather I found in with the eggs.  They really do come from chickens!

We enjoy grapefruit in the morning.  And it is about the same size as the ones at home but as usual something is different. They are so full of seeds---61 seeds in just one grapefruit. 

A Peek at Our life in Paraguay

I have a mental block about blogging... but here is try # 30 or so.  Here are some pictures of our apartment.   Let's see if this works.  We are on the 4th floor in the Santa Rita Building.

As you enter the apartment, this is what you see to your right. Notice the only wall decoration, its the family pictures.

This is looking straight ahead at the front room. Behind the curtain are sliding glass doors out to a small deck.

Now taking a right turn down the hall.  First doorway to the right will be the kitchen.

Pretty tiny but it works and not to much to clean.  Notice our toothbrushes hanging... that is to remind us to use the water from the filter ( it is the white column thing by the sink).

Another view of Kitchen... apron is the decoration.

This is looking into the laundry room. The second door opened is where the maid's quarters would be ( like a walk in closet) and behind that where the closed door is the maids teeny bathroom.  That is where our suitcases are.

This is our washer and dryer combo.  It is new but very different from home.  It takes couple of hours to do one small load.

The next room is on the left of the Kitchen.  It is the spare bedroom used as our office.

There are lots of shelves and closet space along the wall in both bedrooms.

Guest bathroom is next on the left.  Not fancy but lots of nice hot water. And everything is new and clean.

Our bed room is at the end of the hall.  Here is the famous hard bed.  It is working great with the foam topper though.  We don't have any fancy bedding... Only the new purple sheets and a hand-me-down- peach  comforter.  That is a bit too small.  We were glad to have it on the cold nights.   Even wished for a cover or two.  But we are happy and it really doesn't matter. Our bathroom is off our room  and looks exactly like the other one. This is our home for now!