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Image: Our host family's living room - very nice by Honduran standards Image: Tania & Stefany...our host sisters. We love them! Image: The Capital. This is the view from our aunt/uncle's house. Image: The exterior of our house in Valle de Angeles Image: Our room Image: The road we take everyday to training Image: About 100 yards from our house Image: Our house is in the bottom right hand corner Image: Learning to cook a big Honduran lunch Image: Mamma, me, Tanya, Stefany and Maleada Image: Nick and Keri with our host parents and grandma Image: Nick fanning the flames Image: Volunteers in Valle de Angeles hanging out Image: Me and my Image: On our lunch break Image: The walk from our training site in Santa Lucia to the bus stop. Image: Our family - however mamma blocked her face on purpose because her hair was not up to par. Image: This is the view from a restuarant in Valle Image: Beers of Honduras Image: Nick and Keri with ALL the luggage Image: A typical Sunday in the park of Valle de Angeles Image: Our backyard where we hang our clothes to dry. Notice the scenic background... Image: This is the pila in our backyard where we wash our clothes Image: Hanging out for Nikki's last night...we miss you Nikki!!! Image: Keri,Mike,Nikki,and Nick on Nikki's last night Image: Santa Lucia sunset Image: Santa Lucia sunset tambien Image: Adam and Keri hanging out in the training center Image: Back together again Image: Candid shot hiking in La Tigra Image: On our way down from La Tigra Image: The fury of hurricane mitch is still evident today Image: The town on the bottom is where we started our hike from - quite an increase in elevation as you can see Image: the real deal! this is a natural Image: this was an awesome tree. two huge holes in the trunk of it. we are posing behind it. Image: pretty huh? Image: this is us infront of the waterfall we hiked to. it was impressive. too bad we are posing like we are at a high school dance. Image: Image: after a long day of hiking we deserved a little Image: having some good ol times! Image: keri and a couple of the other female volunteers. lots of funny faces from them that night Image: going for the fishy face here. this is keri and lacy. good times Image: me and stoney, and rab. good guys. Image: keri and dave showing off the sign at the park Image: Anne and Keri hanging out on their front porch in Trujillo Image: This is the view from the Volunteers home in Trujillo where we stayed...not bad. Image: Nick,Michael,Anne,and Keri having a seafood meal on the beach Image: overnight trip to San Juan...nice posture! Image: A real cowboy - spurs on a pair of new balances! Image: Beautiful waterfall in San Juan Image: After I went swimming Image: Another awesome cascada!! Image: Adam,Julie,Laura,The two guides,and Nick on top of San Juan Image: Host sister in La Esperanza - last night in town. Image: Nick with host-mom...again last night. Image: Nick's brother, Ricardo. Classic guy!! By the end of FBT Ricardo could say Image: Keri being seranaded for her b-day. Image: Nick cooked dinner for me and eight other members of the fam! Delicious change of pace! Image: Stefany,Katerine,Ronald,Keri,& Tanya Image: Although my name is spelled incorrectly..it is the thought that counts! Image: Before blowing out the candle...everyone is singing to Keri Image: Keri taking a bite out of the cake...notice mamma's hand pushing her head into it. Image: napkin anyone? Image: Keri with Mamma Image: In the bus station in San Pedro Sula with our counterparts Image: Dinner in Copan Ruinas with Kraig and Quincy Image: Inside of our house from the front door - NOT AS NICE AS IT APPEARS IN THE PICS!! Image: View from patio Image: View from inside living room looking out our back door Image: The church in the central park of Cabañas Image: drinks with Alan (Kraig's counterpart) Image: Quincy laying on an ancient Mayan fertility site - she is testing the gods here to see if laying on it really will make her pregnant. Image: on our hike we came across a view of this - people crossing the river back and forth to deliver tomatoes...getting paid per basket. Image: a pic of keri looking out our bedroom window Image: this is keri and i on our hike toward copan ruinas. this is about 30 minutes out of our front door. Image: this is looking back toward cabanas on our hike. that is the river that goes behind our house. Image: hangin out before meeting the pres Image: us with our project managers. helmuth - the guy- is in charge of health volunteers in honduras and alejandrina is my manager. this is in the presidential palace Image: hanging out with the man himself - President Maduro of Honduras. Image: keri and her trainer, perth, after swear in. this is at the ambassadors house. Image: the US ambassador to Honduras - Larry Palmer. A really cool (and tall) dude. We was a Peace Corps volunteer too. Image: me with my trainer, landon Image: the municipal development group after swearing in Image: the health group Image: on the night of swear-in in tegus. what is a party without a little michael jackson karaoke? Image: cool bridge. this is the night of quincy's birthday. the river underneath us meets up with a natural hot spring - which makes an awesome natural jacuzzi. it was great Image: having dinner for quincy's birthday. we are still wet from the hot springs - eating locally grown, organic food. life aint bad. Image: my mistake -- this is the picture of us eating dinner outside the hot springs. the last picture is of us celebrating after swear in. Image: im afraid you will have to read the journal to hear about this one! Image: Keri with our friends in Cabanas Image: Not the safest place to watch the rodeo...kids dangling their legs into the arena Image: a bucking bull at the rodeo Image: Our pila in the backyard...this is where we wash our dishes, hands, clothes. It is our only Image: our bedroom Image: our kitchen Image: Nick in living room Image: View of our backyard Image: View of the front of our house Image: This is the view outside our front gate looking up the dirt road. If you keep walking up the road it takes you into the surrounding mountains. Pretty cool. Image: these are two girls in our town named suyapa and jenny. they absolutely worship keri. every other day or so they write these long letters about how much they love us and want to be friends forever. here they are pointing to honduras on our map. Image: i wrote a 2 page journal entry about this picture - but keri succesfully erased it on accident! long story short we visited a family and they loaded us up with all of this fruit. after feeding us an insane amount of food, they filled up a bag and loaded i Image: Nick Image: Keri with just some of our frequent visitors Image: View of our home town - Cabanas Image: Nick being lazy in our hammock Image: View of the aldea Morazon...beautiful Image: view of cabanas from opposite mountain Image: Keri with our friend Dario - who had just given us this entire dinner set as a gift. Nice huh? Image: The cave full of bats Image: Nick looking completely at ease with a nest of baby bats above his head Image: Moncho, Melvin, and Nick getting a close look at the bats up close Image: Suyapa playing with Keri's hair Image: us experimenting with our camera Image: more down time - our feet Image: Nick and boys working in our garden Image: Friends of ours hanging out in our house. The guy playing guitar is the town doctor. The women are all teachers for Educatodos (like us!). Image: Our garden in progress...grow veggies grow!! Image: during our free time we like to go and visit with families in the community. everytime we visit with someone we are usually served coffee and bread. here is keri with at the house of one of our friends. they are very proud of the Image: this is a shot taken from our Image: hello, my name is keri. check out the viewpoint we get at the end of our hike. Image: candid shot of nick at viewpoint. it takes us about 45 mins to get to this spot from our front door. it is a good little hike, mostly uphill. Image: nick on hike. Image: last sunday was a catholic holiday in honor of saint san antoine. the whole town joined in on this procession around town. they would stop at certain spots and sing songs, pray, etc. it was very interesting to see. Image: yes it is official that we are total nerds. this is how we read when the lights go out, which happens quite a bit. Image: this is our next door neighbor, mauricio. yesterday i went with him to his farm. they have a bunch of land that looks untouched. as we were exploring through it he cut down some bamboo and then made a cup for keri and i with our names in it. this is him m Image: another night without electricity. eating dinner. this is how we live, but we thoroughly enjoy it. Image: this is at the inauguration of the water-system. these are all the kids of the town welcoming us as we come into their village. it was quite impressive. here they are awaiting the arrival of the ambassador. Image: that is right ladies and gentlemen, we can make tortillas too. this is at a family's house in cabanas with their daughter. Image: last weekend we spent some time with a family that we really like a lot in cabanas. the kids wanted to take us up a steep hill to show us the view of their property. this is keri being helped down by their daughter. she was having 'problems' on the descen Image: this is nick while he went out to measure properties. not a very sturdy bridge to say the least. but he insisted on climbing up there for the pic. he mumbled something about indiana jones and then headed for the bridge. Image: this kid was walking in front of my 'measuring team' with a machete and hacking away. a really nice little kid. i gave him my shades to wear for a while and i could tell that he felt pretty darn cool. i had to take a picture of him. Image: This is pueblo viejo - a very typical aldea outside of Cabanas. Notice the pig in the forefront. Image: Keri showing off some of her teaching materials that she has been preparing. This charla is about basic nutrition. Image: Our beautiful bookshelf...and our beautiful Nick Image: This was our 3rd of July hanging out by the lake - candid shot of everyone enjoying their time Image: Keri,Salsa,and Natalie before heading out on the most hilarious and amazing jetski experience....GO TEAM JETSKI!! Image: This is our friend Jason - a lot NICER than he looks!! You got to love a man with a stach, bandana and a velvet shirt! Image: Being silly one night with some fake mustaches - hanging out at the hotel! Image: It sure is good seeing friends, Nick Image: This is the group before descending down into the waterfall basin(Dave,Nick,Jason,Laura,Keri,Laura,Natalie) Image: This is a view from above of the waterfall...awesome! Image: Nick and Keri from up above the waterfall...you can see how wet we are from all the mist Image: This is part of our crew that went down underneath the waterfall - just having finished the amazing adventure Image: Same shot as previous but with the ability to see the massive falls behind us. We did that!! Image: Laura and Keri on the evening of the 4th of July Image: This is a picture of our friend Rab....Rad Rab!! Image: in the back of a pickup with some of our friends. riding in pickups in honduras is the most commonly used form of transportation. and if this looks crowded, you should see some of the other pickups on the road. it is nuts! Image: One day both Nick and I went to a little aldea called 'Naranjales' with our health center. Here Nick is getting to know some of the kids by looking for worms with them. Image: This is Keri on the same day with the kids in Naranjales in front of their only school. Image: This is us with our friend Roy from Israel and Roy's sister. They stayed in Cabanas for a little while but unfortunatly will be leaving this monday for good. Image: Nick hiking through the mountains in search of the water source Image: nicks english class. Image: Our precious little girl, Nube. How can you not love her? Image: Nube just after bathing her Image: This is a pic of all the kids that are constantly visiting to play with Nube. She is a popular kitty. Image: And our little girl is all worn out. Her life is almost as rough as ours :) Image: A bitchin sunset in Cabanas Image: Us with Suyapa on her 15th birthday. Image: picture #1 Image: photo #2 Image: photo #3 Image: photo #4 Image: photo #5 Image: photo #6 Image: photo #7 Image: photo #8 Image: picture #9 Image: photo #10 Image: photo 11 Image: photo #12 Image: photo #13 Image: photo 14 Image: #15 Image: last one #16 Image: This is our candlelight cabin Image: Our first night, enjoying some cocktails on our front porch during sunset. Image: Nick enjoying his time away from work, relaxing while listening to music. Image: Keri enjoying the natural fresh water pool in Pico Bonito's national park. Absolutely beautiful. Image: Nick and Keri enjoying the refreshing water together Image: Nick in front of another natural waterfall Image: This is Keri and Zoe (a girl we met at our hotel) hiking through the lush jungle of Pico Bonito. Image: Keri stopping for a picture as we arrive to the base of the waterfall Image: Keri and Zoe enjoying the view from the top. The waterfall is behind them Image: Nick and Keri enjoying the natural massage of the waterfall (the fall is from 90 meters up, so it has quite an impact on anyone standing below it) Image: Keri under the waterfall solo Image: Nick under the waterfall solo Image: This is the first picture of many to come of our trip to Triunfo de la Cruz over labor day weekend. It took us no less than a half an hour to get this tower completed... Image: Here is a shot of the local Garifunas people taking a little time to enjoy the refreshing waters of the Caribbean. Image: be careful - that sand is HOT. keri and our friend megan laying low in Triunfo de la Cruz. Image: first night. keri along with some other volunteers from our group. it was great to see everyone. Image: keri with our friends laura and natalie. this is inside the discoteca. Image: nick, rod, and adam. chillin out and catching up. Image: dancing the night away with some of the local people. good times. i hope she isnt laughing at my dancing skills. Image: this guy is named chino and he is awesome. im excited to return to trinfo de la cruz to see some of the guys that live there. really cool guys. Image: nick talking with some local kids, while they hijack our checkers board and attempt to make up their own game. Image: keri, megan, and agatha close to sunset time. notice the group of us playing some volleyball behind them. it was a great set-up. just us volunteers and the people of the village! Image: awww, how cute. here we are enjoying a sunset together. too bad the sun is so bright. Image: another view of the setting sun. Image: During the dance presentation. Image: still rockin the house Image: last one. you have no idea how amazing these guys were. Image: and this is the 'punta queen' herself. dancing solo on stage with one of the dancers. wish you guys could have seen it. Image: dancing right in front of the bongo drums. that a girl. Image: here is a shot of the group hanging out at the bonfire on the beach. Image: this guy was showing me new dance moves all night long. Image: this was a ceremony that was held for educatodos - the program that we teach. this is our 7th grade class. poor nick had to make an impromptu speech in SPANISH with the microphone in back Image: this is a pic from last weekend. one of the villages had a 'festival of corn'. free food and drinks for everyone! and everything was made from corn, even the drinks. here is a group doing a traditional dance. it was really cool. the mayor got on the mic a Image: This is a shot of the Image: Keri arrived in sneakers and blue jeans, when her Honduran friends decided to dress her up for her big day - dia de maestros (teachers day). It was really thoughtful! Image: This is us with the group - notice the two large cakes they bought for the celebration. In accord with Honduran tradition, we had to put some of the cake on our faces. Image: A close up shot of keri with a little cake on her face Image: Keri dancing with our friend Edwin. After dinner the twenty of us or so ended up enjoying our own private dance party. Image: Nick dancing with our friend Alba. She is 21 years old with a 6 year old son...and this was the first time she had ever danced in her entire life. She enjoyed herself to say the least. Image: Another shot of Nick enjoying himself with two of our girlfriends Image: Turns out they bought us gifts as well. This is Keri hugging Ada after she presented her gift. Image: A shot of the group dancing in a conga line. Realize that at this point there really are no others in the room besides Nick and I. They dont need a big group to have a good time. Image: Nick finally showing some love to our precious little Nube Image: This is a picture of Keri and Iris hiking Image: Another pic of Keri and Iris taking a breather Image: Nick and Iris enjoying the view at the top of our hike Image: This is a picture of Keri with one of our favorite families that we visit regularly. They were so excited to have a picture of us with the whole family, they even included their kitty. Image: Nick´s turn to take a pic with the same family. Image: This is a picture of Nick with our friend Will in a town called San Fernando. Will's wife grew up in San Fernando, so two weekends ago we accompanied them to visit her family. It is a great little town without electricity. Image: Nick and Keri in front of the big catholic church in San Fernando Image: Keri with the whole family on the way back from San Fernando. Image: Nick and Keri with just the kids on the way back from San Fernando Image: Keri teaching in front of her 6th grade class Image: Keri demonstrating to the class how to use a condom correctly Image: Another picture of Keri helping the kids use a condom correctly Image: This is Henry obviously very proud of his condom on the banana Image: Students holding up their bananas with condoms Image: On the last day of the program, Keri gave every kid a diploma (Diplomas are huge in this country). This is a pic of the whole class and the teacher with their diplomas. Image: This is Nick giving an HIV charla on the first day of our workshop in the highschool Image: This is the spot where a lot of the locals bathe when their is no water. This is our neighbor Mauricio enjoying the waterfall Image: Nube the lioness Image: This is Keri helping Jesus tie Punky Rooster to the pole. And the farm begins... Image: Nick with our newest member to the farm, Ernest Henningway Image: This is a picture of some kids outside our gate on 'dia de brujas'...central america's version of Halloween. Image: All together again in Costa Rica. We are on our way to a secluded beach where we got to see a whole family of howler monkeys. In the background you can see our resort...not bad, eh? Image: Girls group shot on the boat Image: Nick with dad on same boat Image: A shot of Kim, Nick, and little Katelyn hanging by the pool. Image: Katelyn stealing Nick's sunglasses...again! That girl LOVES sunglasses!! Image: Nick and Keri in front of the pool. Image: A beautiful sunrise seen from the gulf of papagayo, costa rica. Image: A group shot of the whole family before stuffing our faces with an 'all you can eat' dinner buffet Image: This is a picture of just one of the many LARGE igunas we saw during a river boat tour. Later in the tour we were able to witness the feeding of raw chicken to a crocodile, who came very close to our boat to eat. It was awesome!! Image: Nick with his parents. Notice the beautiful sunset in the background Image: Here is a shot of everyone playing some cards after a long day at the pool...gosh life is rough! Image: Before our last dinner...the girls indulging in some Costa Rican cigars Image: And now all the boys with their cigars... Image: Us with beautiful little Katelyn Image: A typical sunset Image: Last group shot before our final dinner. How fast the trip came and went Image: here we are about half-way through our little atv excursion. we stopped at a couple viewopoints like this. good times. Image: this is us after our atv fun. don't know if you can see it, but we are caked with dust. especially kim. Image: here we are with a couple friends during halloween. we are dressed up in honduran school uniforms. it was a good way to spend our halloween in honduras Image: our friends julie and stoney. julie totally played the 'geeky schoolgirl' part all day long. check out the facial expressions she has in the pictures. classic Image: keri and our friend quincy, both dressed as honduran school girls. Image: this guy is a honduran friend of ours, carlos. he dressed up as a 'matador', so i played along with it. Image: goofing around during the day. obviously, MR T had the best outfit out of everyone. this guy is from orange county as well. in fact the OC Register is sending a reporter to honduras to write a story about he and i. pretty cool. Image: This is a picture of Rab removing the neck from the newly dead turkey they just killed. Yummmy! Image: A picture of our Thanksgiving dinner spread! Image: A picture of everyone enjoying the best meal of the year!! Image: This was the night before thanksgiving...We made a little sushi, and as you can see got into the 'sushi' mood! Image: Our first night to dinner all together again! Image: My mom and I at the Ruins. A much cooler experience than I anticipated! Image: mom and joel in the back of a pick up truck - what troopers! Image: mom and Keri making some kissy faces!! Image: Us with a character from Cirque du Soleil Image: A view of one of the beautiful beaches we got to visit...not bad, eh? Image: A waterfall that we hiked to! Image: Nick enjoying the view of the white sand beach and clear blue water Image: How cool we look in our snorkel masks! But we got to see some very cool fish and coral! It was great! And can you believe that is OCEAN water?? Image: Last night in Old San Juan! Image: This is a picture of Edwin showing my mom and Joel what coffee looks like right after it is picked and peeled. Image: This is mom reading her Spanish Image: Gloria is teaching my mom how to make a corn tortilla. It is much harder than it looks! Image: This is Joel drinking coconut milk that the family had just picked for him. Image: Us with one of the wonderful families we visited in Cabanas Image: Holding hands with two of the little girls on the street towards our house Image: Nick and Keri on top of a bell tower Image: Is someone peeing? Image: Nick was a bad, bad boy!! Image: Mother and daughter together again!! Image: unfortunately it came out blurry, but this is a view of the coffee farm. you can see the woman and her son combing the trees. you might be able to see the sack around the sons waist too. maybe not. Image: can you believe this. this girl suyapa and her two little brothers and sisters came to our house the other day with this big branch. after about 3 seconds of confusion we realized that they were bringing us a christmas tree! we tried to get it set up, but Image: This is the woman that cut coffee with Nick - the man in the forefront is Will. They are in the process of measuring how much coffee she picked. Image: Gisselle with Keri. Gisselle is all dressed up in her white dress because she received her first communion Image: Keri has decided to join in on the fun of Christmas Eve and light a firecracker. They LOVE their firecrackers... Image: On Christmas Day, Nick jumping rope with one of our favorite families in Cabanas Image: This is us picking coffee on Christmas Eve. We had a wonderful time! Image: Laura, Adam, Keri and Nick in front of a very cool, old church in Granada. Image: Here we are on the first night in Gigantes playing cranium...a great group game! Image: This is our friend Quincy on John's boat, heading to the private beach where the others are surfing. Image: Group circle just after midnight on New Years Eve. Here we were making toasts to eachother, enjoying champagne on the beach in Nicaragua...not a bad way to bring in 2005, eh? Image: Keri taking off the feathers of our recently killed chicken, just hours before we ate it. Image: Larry and Keri cooking a remarkable breakfast! Image: checking out the famous mayan ruins near our house Image: let the adventures begin - the hike up to the top of celaque! Image: taking a breather on the way up. Image: this is us hiking in action to the top of celaque...notice how steep it is! Image: Nick and Keri at the top of Celaque in the cloud forest...where everything is WET Image: At the base of the mountain lives this little old woman, Doña Alejandrina, and her family. She cooked us a wonderful hot meal that couldn´t have tasted any better after our two days of hiking and camping. Image: larry and keri doing a little horse back riding in san juan, intibuca. Image: Looks like Larry´s having fun!! Image: nick and keri just before hiking up to the waterfall for lunch Image: scared for our lives...the hitchhike from hell!! Image: Nick and Larry hanging out in front of a beautiful waterfall! Image: This is the beach in Tela where we relaxed for a few days...not bad, eh? Image: The four of us prepping to go on the canopy tour, a.k.a zip line Image: Nick in action on the zip line Image: Annie and Keri close-up Image: Surprise... Image: Keri and Annie enjoying some time on the dock Image: Enjoying the view from the water taxi Image: Enjoying a delicious seafood dinner... Image: A little stroll along the beach in the morning Image: Holding one of the baby monkeys at the hotel...so cool holding a monkey! Image: A typical day at the beach...beach scene Image: Taking a little pee break while fishing... Image: Nothing but ocean... Image: The boys enjoying a cold beer Image: this is the market in copan where we buy all of our veggies and fruits. we have gotten to know some of the vendors and it makes it more fun to shop. so this is it..... Image: this is keri buying some goods from one of our favorite vendors. Image: a picture we took during the film festival. here you can see the screen in the street and some kids gathering around. Image: i tried to sneak in a candid shot of the kids gathering in front of the screen during the film festival. at this point of the program we were showing cartoons from cuba. they loved it. Image: Nick getting artsy. This is in front of our neighbors house - drying corn. Image: This is our neighbor, Dona Panchita, emptying out the log that is in place for the bees to make honey...once a year they empty it out to gather the goods... Image: This is a shot of one of the many active volcanos at lake Atitlan in Guatemala. A very beautiful, tranquil place. Image: Hilly and Keri enjoying a candlelight dinner at the lake Image: Keri and Hilly in the street of Chichicastenango before the big market day. Image: A shot of the bustling marketplace in Chichi...a scene unlike any other Image: Hilly and Keri in front of the fountain in Antigua's central park Image: The three of us in front of the large cathedral in Antigua, Guatemala Image: The cathedral in Antigua at night, cool pic, eh? Image: All of us at a wonderful dinner celebrating my birthday in Antigua Image: The trooper of the year award goes to.... Image: Nick vs the volcano...In Lago Atitlan, Guatemala Image: This is a typical woman in the Chichi market showing off her art Image: Here is Keri harvesting our first onion from the garden. Yum! Image: This is the four of us, Nick with the three ladies enjoying our time in San Pedro Image: Nick and I on boat to Placencia Belize Image: Josh relaxing in hammock at Ranguana Caye, after our first open water dive Image: all together on the front of our sailboat ´out of practice´ Image: Keri with josh and dad on front of the boat Image: Josh getting ready to go snorkeling, and looking really cool at the same time Image: dad´s snorkel find of the trip, a HUGE starfish Image: showing off their muscles in the water...who do you think looks stronger? Image: the three of us enjoying a beautiful sunset from the boat Image: Getting ready to go diving Image: What trip is complete without a shot and a nipple squeeze? Image: Now they are just getting silly... Image: Josh and Nick having a great time hanging out Image: Josh eating a tomato for a bet, and liking it Image: Our best snorkel find of the trip, a conch fish - we ate it later that afternoon....Yummmy conch fritters! Image: Nick and Keri enjoying Tobacco Caye, while the others played some pool Image: dad and josh enjoying some breakfast on the boat Image: The ´out of practice´ boat that we lived on for 5 days...life sure can be rough, eh? Image: Nick enjoying some tubing action Image: This was called `palm caye´...with its one palm tree and one house that is occupied. I wish i could have met the unusual man that lives there. Can you imagine? Image: The entire gang with Nella and Allen before having to say goodbye. As you can imagine, we did not want to leave. Image: This is Donna, Josh, and Keri about 45 feet underwater...scuba diving!! Image: Josh and Keri enjoying the dive Image: Dad, Keri and Josh taking some time to smile for the camera during a dive Image: Here is a pic of the barracuda that followed us the ENTIRE time while diving Image: this is our next door neighbor jimi...i opened our front door at 7 am and found him like this. i had to grab my camera and snap this shot. Image: took this picture of a girl in our town as we were walking around last sunday visiting families. she saw us from about 200 yards away and yelled `keeeerrrriiii` Image: here is a picture taken from a meeting we had with the participants and their parents for Odyssey of the Mind. Here they are building structures out of dry spaghetti and tape. They all loved it. It is a great program for the kids. Image: one of the participants in odyssey of the mind presenting to the group in our last meeting. Image: here is the beautiful keri krefetz with her counterpart irma vasquez. these two young ladies will be starting a womens group in cabanas together- Image: some of the local kids in their school uniforms. shade is of the essence when it is hot as it is lately! Image: This is Nick with the girls on our first night all together again!! Image: A candid photo of Nick chatting it up with some of the local men in our town. Image: The girls each holding a baby chick...Lauren especially felt right at home with her´s :) Image: Here we are making popcorn to sell with some of our students to raise money for our Odyssey of the Mind group Image: Aj and Sarah getting photo happy with some of the local girls Image: Laur-dog y Keri enjoying the scenic drive up to one of the villages Image: Keri with one of the adorable girls in the village..look at those eyes (and the little girls aren´t so bad either :) Image: Aj and Keri showing some love on the front steps Image: Who needs a big house with lots of people to have a crazy dance party? Image: Good old sar-bear... Image: So much for confortable situations...Sarah let go of all embarrasment and danced the punta with Christian while we all watched on with smiles Image: Learning about the history of the Mayan Ruins....everyone was soooo interested! Image: Up on top at the Hacienda San Lucas getting ready for a beautiful, unforgettable evening together Image: Showing off their very own hand-made corn tortillas... Image: On our way to Semuc Champey...in the middle of nowhere, driving in the back of a covered pickup due to the rain outside...quite an adventure! Image: After a full day of swimming in the limestone pools at semuc champey... Image: A glimpse of the limestone swimming pools at Semuc...a beautiful setting Image: Nick imitating Lauren´s reaction to thunder... Image: The four girls on the street in Antigua, Guatemala Image: Looking at the church at night in Antigua in the sprinkling rain Image: Nick and lauren just finished showering under the rain gutter and are rinsing off in the rain, due to the fact that we had no water at the house to bathe... Image: The three girls with our PC friend Quincy...so cool that everyone got to meet everyone! Image: And a perfect way to end the trip - celebrating Lauren´s birthday, Mexico style!! Image: Here Keri is working with the students Gloria and Lesly, preparing their first artwork for Odyssey of the Mind Image: And after a full day´s work, the girls are ready to head home in the rain Image: Our neighbors...look at the difference between the boys stance and the girls Image: The most recent intruder to enter our house... Image: Nick and Jodi hanging out in Copan Image: Sabrina and Keri with our friend Carlos in Copan Image: Nick captured a great candid of Sabrina and I on the street in Copan...i love this pic Image: Our first night out on the island Image: enjoying beach life.... Image: Getting all dressed up for a night out on the town Image: But we cant go out until sabrina has taught Keri her butt exercises Image: Nick´s favorite pic Image: Here we all are at 4:30 am getting ready to make the long trek to Tegucigalpa Image: Playing some group-bonding games together the night before the tournament Image: Here they are during part one of the spontaneous problems answering in front of the judges Image: Jaqueline during the presentation of the long term problem Image: During the presentation of the long-term problem Leydy here is presenting the paintings. Image: They painted their feet as part of their costume. They are all geese - and everyone loved it!! Image: Here they all are with their second place trophey and diplomas...A job well done!! Image: Nick and Keri with the odyssey of the mind group and 2nd place trophey!! Image: Some of the kids showing off their new shirts the following day... Image: A picture of one of the beautiful sunsets we saw from our room Image: Nick surfing it up... Image: A shot of us in the mirror with me kissing my new ring... Image: keri hanging on the couch in our room enjoying a glass of wine Image: Nick in the room hanging out...notice the beautiful view behind him Image: Sunrise photo Image: we woke up one morning to find a huge really bright rainbow right in front us setting into the ocean...this picture gives you the idea although it was so much brighter in reality Image: A shot of the beautiful jade ring nick suprised me with... Image: Nick and Keri enjoying some pool time at the resort Image: Thought this was a cool shot of a family passing by our house. Our house is the gate on the right hand side. Sitting at home we see traffic as such constantly. Image: Here is Nick getting silly with our neighbors... Image: Keri is congratulating little Nicole on her special day and admiring her Barney piñata that she couldnt take her hands off of. Image: Here Keri is sitting with some of the kids at the school - getting ready to paint her face and act like a clown for them. Image: Here is just one shot of the numerous children that surrounded us at the school from the moment we got there Image: Keri with Delmy and Julie, after having just finished our clown presentation to the kids Image: And here are the two gringo clowns.... Image: Natalie and Keri are washing clothes at the pila here...keri is washing, natalie is hanging. They call this dance, ´the pila´ Image: a snapshot of nick and keri at our friend Natalie´s house Image: A picture of the parade in town celebrating the 15th of September, Honduras´s Independence Day! Image: We came home to find this chicken in our flower pot laying eggs - they dont get much fresher than that!! Image: The view from our backyard Image: Nick and will hanging out in front of the pharmacy Image: our daytime costumes during the hash run... Image: Zach and Keri - his costume is one of the best I have ever seen...Edward Scissorhands! Image: Everybody dressed up after finishing the hash run...yup, we all ran throughout the town in these costumes - talk about community integration! Image: And our nighttime costumes. I am a frog and Nick is a sexy genie. He won the prize for ¨best costume after a few drinks¨...we were so proud! Image: Genie...up close and personal! Image: My frog tongue here is extending to cupids nipple...dont tell the genie!! Image: In Copan´s central park, catching up with good friends! Image: Hanging out in Copan with good friends - Adam, Keri, Natalie, and Kelly Image: A view of the sunset with our house in the forefront Image: A great pic of some kids bathing in a puddle that we passed during a hike...they were all smiles and so excited to model for the picture! Image: Nick and I were invited to go to watch 3 of our close friends gradaute highschool. We were honored to be one of the few invited to share this special occasion. Here we are with Iris. Image: Not long ago Nick and I decided to build a firepit in our backyard. Here is my strong little Nickel digging away!! Image: We enjoyed one night when our closest friends from copan came out for the night. Here is Cali, Quincy, Kraig and keri. Image: This is a picture of our house taken from the house above ours. Just to provide you with a different perspective... Image: Sunset shot taken from the house above ours...that is our backyard folks! Image: Nick and Chapin crossing a river during a six hour hike through Cabañas Image: During their hike they came across these adorable little girls who were all smiles for the camera Image: Nick´s award winning shot of a campesino working his field - a man they came across during their long hike...cool photo, eh? Image: Doctor Nick taking a break from the operating room action Image: Keri and Erin together again in Miami... Image: Enjoying the beautiful beach of St. Marten Image: Mother and daughter together again...looking good on formal night! Image: And the handsome couple... Image: Here we are at the beginning of the trip, sitting with our guide, Mino, as he explains to us where we will be going on the map.... Image: This is at the end of our 8 hour hike to our first campsite....we had to cross the river as you can see (and the current was stronger than it looks) Image: Here are two of the rafts checking out the wild banana trees...remember we are in the JUNGLE in the middle of nowhere!! Image: A shot of some of the boys checking out the rapids below.... Image: A beautiful shot of the river just after sunrise Image: This is a shot of one of the gnarly rapids(doesnt look that bad, i know...but there were 4 consecutive rapids just like that..making it very dangerous). notice the guy in the water...that is Eddie (one of the guides)...it was a really scary situation but Image: Putting the tripod to use...this is the whole group including our 4 amazing guides. This shot is taken just after breakfast before heading back out on the river Image: This is a wild tapir...an animal I had never even heard of before - but soooo cool to see up close. Tapirs are the largest mammals in all of central america...so it was very cool to see!! Image: Here we are on the side of the river during a MASSIVE rainfall. It just all of a sudden started pouring on us Image: A shot of one of our campsites on the side of the river (this was my favorite one...the tents were on sand, and the rest was rock) Image: Here we are filed in...2 canoes filled by us, and the 3 canoe is filled with all of our stuff....when was the last time you were in a dugout canoe? Image: This is how the local Misquitos get around...not like jumping in your landcruiser and going to the nearest movie, eh? Image: A cool shot of how a Misquito stands on the canoe in order to paddle and direct it where to go... Image: Jason and Jodi enjoying some coconut water at Doña Glorias just after lunch... Image: Jason and Jodi with our closest friends in Cabañas Image: Happy Birthday Nick!! It is tradition here to bathe the birthday person with eggs,oil,flour,etc. They got him good!! Image: Keri and Jodi enjoying some downtime after a rough night out in Copan. Image: The four of us our first night out in Copan Image: After our exciting rafting adventure on Rio Cangrejal... Image: Me with Jason and Jodi at Omega Lodge Image: The boys doing some hat shopping in Tela at the ropa americana.... Image: Jason and Jodi enjoying the fresh water in a natural swimming hole in Pico Bonito Image: Keri with the bear/rat trap.... Image: Keri enjoying some FRESH corn on the cob...just hours after it was cut off the stalk Image: Nick and Don Marcos hanging out in the kitchen...just waiting to eat some good food!! Image: Gloria, Sandra, and Keri on their way to grind the fresh corn... Image: Nick's parents braving the chicken bus in Honduras...troopers! Image: Nick and his mom enjoying the sunset at Hacienda San Lucas... Image: Nick with his dad in the butterfly farm in Pico Bonito Image: John and Maurine on top of tower #1 at the Lodge in Pico Bonito...enjoying the view and doing some bird watching. Image: John doing some serious bird watching....and looking cool at the same time (who knew you could do both?) Image: Keri with John and Maurine on our way to lunch on Roatan... Image: Nick and his parents at dinner our last night... Image: A couple days ago we went to our friends farm to pick some tomatoes and peppers...here Manuelito and Karina are showing off some of the fresh tomatoes we picked Image: Nick goofing off with Maunelito y Karina at the farm Image: Keri with our friends Julie y Delmy and the two little ones - in front of fresh peppers growing in the farm Image: Nick and Keri with Manuelito in the farm
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