This past week has been very intense for both of us!  It was report card time and parent teacher interviews at Nate Saint School… always a little stressful from everyone’s perspective.  However, all went well and Valerie had energy left over to enjoy Friday’s Harvest Festival, dedicated to the amazing apple.  Valerie even learned some fascinating facts during the 

Apple Trivia game.

  

Garth put in longer hours than usual as he and Ron Grant raced the clock to get the apartment finished for moving day, TODAY.  The place looks great and the teachers moving in are excited with their new accommodations.  Friday night we were invited over to the Grant’s home for pizza and a movie to celebrate completion of the apartment project. 

Today we strolled over to the school to see what bargains could be had at the grade 7/8 garage sale.  People enjoy a good sale in any country and business was brisk.  Surprisingly the sun shone the whole time!  We are pretty sure enough money was made to get the students to Quito for their field trip in November.  Buy the way; we did acquire some great English reading material for a grand total of 50 cents.

On the way back from the market this afternoon, we met a family from Missouri, an elderly woman, her son and her grand daughter.  They were taking it 

VERY SLOW

 across the swinging bridge and we had to wait for them to cross in order to not get the bridge bouncing wildly.  We were impressed with the spunk of the elderly woman who was excited to explore the town, which holds such rich missionary history.  We are also amazed at the number of visitors from other countries who cross our path.  On Wednesday we met another Johnson family, direct from Sweden.  It was fun to listen to them talk.  Needless to say there is never a dull moment around here. 

We have not had time to take many pictures this week so we are including some earlier pictures of interesting flowers, leaves, a cute frog and an interesting stick bug that Garth captured with the camera, then seconds later accidentally stepped on!!