NPH, Casa de Maynor

I went to NPH in Tegucigalpa again to visit Maynor. This time I took Mauricio and David with me. We all had a great time and got to stay longer than I usually do. We were there Wed. to Sun. School starts this week so it was a nice get away before the kids start back to school. Here are some of the photos from our trip. The first is Maynor dressed up for a traditional dance that he did with his class at a presentation. During the time off from school, the kids there take fun classes like sports, dance, judo, etc. The last day of the fun classes was a presentation from each of the classes on what they learned. Maynor was very good with the other kids dancing traditional Honduran dance.

Video of Maynor's dance. He is wearing the red belt.

Beach Photos

Here are some of the photos of our trip to the beach on Friday. We left the casa at 9am in a large bus (former school bus in the U.S.) with everyone packed in. It was a little cloudy when we got there but the water was still nice and just about everyone went swimming. After a while the clouds went away and it was a very pretty sunny day. Lunch was hotdogs which we brought with us. After lunch more swimming. We ended up staying longer than usual and didn't get back to the casa until 6pm. Everyone was wiped out by then. Brian and Mary got to join us for the trip before returning to the cold winter of NY the next day.

Beach Video

These are some video clips of our trip to the beach on Friday.

Brian and Mary's Visit

Brian and Mary from New York returned to visit the kids again. They have been regular visitors for 10 years or more. One of the things they always do it take the older kids out to lunch in town, a great treat for the kids. We went to Pizza Hut. The kids always like Pizza Hut because they have a huge play area for them to play in. The three oldest boys and eight oldest girls got to go.


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Maynor, Mary and Brian . . . . . . . . Ester, Karla, Rebeca, Alba & Gigo . . Norma, Kenia, Escarlet, Mauricio

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Escarlet, Norma & Rebeca . . . . . . . Alba & Maynor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Milton & Cindy with desert

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You can see the American commercialism here in the middle photo above, the kids are sitting in Pizza Hut with TGI Fridays out the window in the background.

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Hey Rob, Milton still has the hat you gave him!

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All of the kids are also very excited getting ready for our trip to the beach tomorrow.

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Christmas in January!

Thank you to Lauren and Mark Loboda and everyone at Saint Mary's Church in Hudson, Ohio who contributed to and sent four boxes of Christmas presents to the kids. The boxes arrived today and every child in the casa received their own individual present and Christmas card. This was very thoughtful of you all and it meant a lot to each of the kids to receive individual presents with their names on them. It was actually better that the mail moves at a snails pace to get here because they usually receive lots of treats from visitors the week of Christmas so it was nice having them a month later. The kids went to the office in groups of 3 or 4 for their present and card and then returned to the main casa to begin playing. They all had a great afternoon.