Birthday celebration...

View from our boat on the lake

Our birthday mermaid...

Would you want to captain this boat???

Yesterday the entire family went on a 'day outing' to celebrate the 14th birthday (actually it's Monday) of Fabiola. It's hard to believe the scrawny, little, 10 year old girl we first met is now a blossoming, beautiful, young woman...but she is!

First we went to Lago de Yojoa, the largest lake in Honduras, and took a boat tour of the lake. It was great fun, as none of the kids had ever been on a boat before and the lake is beautiful. After having a picnic lunch we headed high into the mountains to 'Joya Grande', the largest zoo in Honduras. It was really quite good; they had monkeys, macaws, ostriches, llamas, prairie dogs, peacocks, leopards, lions, hippos, zebras, giraffes, and many other animals. They also had a zip line that really flew and the best item for the kids was a LeMans type race car and course that they could drive (Mauricio & Fabiola...the rest had to ride w/them or Will or myself). Once back into San Pedro Sula we had Fabi's birthday dinner at her choice restaurant, Larson's. Tonight we'll have a cake after dinner and give her her presents. She really is amazing...