A lot of times they have children dressed in costumes to honor the day. |
All of them have ornate flower sprays. They are just gorgeous! |
This is the Youth auxiliary for the Bomberos squad. |
This is a local high school. I have no idea where they get enough money for these nice uniforms and expensive instruments. They play pretty well too. |
Almost every group has thier king and queen. These High School kids are dressed in the traditional Panamanian Pulletas |
This is the local bilingual school. I thought Joel's kids would get a kick out of seeing Alison. She is a member of our branch. |
Royalty for an elementary school |
Impressive Las Tablas High school. Might I add it was blazing hot that day and the kids are wearing wool jackets. Every time they stopped they had water boys run into their ranks and pass out water. |
Grandpa took the kids to the Plaza while we were waiting to leave town. |
We had Joel's three youngest while the rest of the family went to a near by Island and got stranded there for hours. |
This is your crazy Dad. The reason he has his shoes on is because he is carrying the kids up to the car and the sand is hot and there are rocks where we are parked. Isn't he a beauty! |
Ammon reading to a baby at the orphanage. All of the kids did really well interacting with the babies. |
Joel is holding Angel. One of our favorites |
You know me, I can't get enough of babies. |
Caroline loved the 'brown babies' as she called them. |
Quite a color contrast. Savannah carried around babies that weighed almost as much as she does |
Here is my friend Edna (a less-active) holding my granddaughter and her granddaughter. She loved that we took the time to have the whole gang of us stop by. |
Here is Emery at the cattle sale. Seems like he should have on a cowboy hat. You can see the man's Panamanian hat in the foreground. That's what they wear around here. |
Savannah at the temple grounds in Panama City |
Emery in front of the temple. The grounds are so beautiful! |
Amazing carvings on the tree trunk |
And on the rocks nearby |
A gorgeous little waterfall |
And a beautiful river |
This is a coffee plant. These beans are still green. When they are ripe they turn red. There is a huge coffee plantation here called Cafe Ruiz. Adam, have you been holding out on us? |