Javi turns 30

On Saturday we had a party for Javi's 30th birthday. I personally don't know (yet) but I hear the event can be a hard time on some so we wanted to bring in the new decade in style.

First we made dinner with some good gringo friends. A few people came in from out of town.





Afterwords the Honduran crowd (and a few European ladies) started to show up.

We had cake. Javi's face got pressed into the surface of it before we cut it up, and because people were chanting "Que le besa" Javi gave me a kiss and shared his icing

Look at that face!

Later on we played games and there were some water balloons involved....

Here is Javi with Emil, the guy he works very closely with at the Escuela Taller. These kinds of things build camaraderie which goes a long way when trying to get work done here.

We are still recovering from the night's festivities!

Anyway, we are off to the States on Tuesday to spend almost 2 weeks at home with family and friends AND to attend the wedding of two good friends who will be getting married in Austin. We are VERY excited to go home, as you can imagine! If theres a chance, I'll post a little something, but otherwise it'll have to wait awhile til I get home. Of course, thats no different than how we post here. But maybe we might have some interesting things to say and some random insights after being away from home for almost a year and a half now.