Cancelled trip to village

Today was a pretty wild day! As you can see, we're in the middle of rainy season. Sorry these words are showing up on the side. I've tried to change it and but it's not working.

We canceled our trip to the village tomorrow because the roads are too bad. It's rainy season here and many roads are dirt. Right now they're pure mud and washed out. Even the "good" roads are flooded and covered with mud and rocks which have slid down the sides of the mountains.

We tried to go to a place outside of town today to check on having Levi's birthday party there. We got stuck and never made it all the way there. It took about 20 minutes to get the van out of the mud. We do not have a 4 x 4, but you really need one on many of these roads. We're using a big Dodge van until this weekend because we didn't fit in our vehicle with all of our luggage after our trip to Guatemala. John will take it back this weekend and get our car. It's not any better than the van on the roads. At least the van had space for us. (It was the best trip we've had so far because we weren't all on top of each other and holding everything in our laps for 5 hours. ) It is very hard to get around here in it though because it's so big and the roads are so narrow.

I'm not sure what we're going to do about the stories. Maybe we can get started with some people here in town. During rainy season it's very hard to get around. We're meeting with Pablo and the team at his house tomorrow at 4 p.m. instead. We'll have to figure out a way to start the stories if we can't get to the villages.

Here are some pics of our town. And these are the "good roads". You wouldn't want to see the mountain roads! It took us an hour to drive a stretch of road that usually takes 5 minutes! You can walk it in 5-10. The roads were flash flooded, one side was shut down for repair and the police were making a huge drug bust and had a convoy of vehicles trying to get there for it. It was like sitting in traffic in Sao Paulo again. Ok, so maybe not---- you see the pics. LOL!

I'll admit that I am a BIG BABY when it comes to the roads. I really hate the roads here. When I saw the road we needed to go down and that it was muddy, I begged to get out. Of course John thought that was crazy and kept driving anyway. I told him we wouldn't make it. I did say an "I told you so" (LOL) when we got stuck. (I know it wasn't necessary, but it made me feel better. haha) So, I got out of the van and walked back up the hill. I didn't want to slide off of the side of the mountain in that big van. I took the kids with me. It started to rain as we were trying to get unstuck. It's a good thing we got out when we did, because just a few minutes later it was pouring and I think we may have been stuck there for the night!

I hate curvy mountain roads. I'm not sure what is worse--- when they're muddy and slippery or when they're silt and slippery............... It's gonna be a long rainy season for me!