Last week Will shared a video in his airplane.  This week I decided to share pictures of where we live.  This is our two-story house in Haiti.  We live on a dead-end street with 3 Haitian families & 3 missionary families.  Most houses are built of concrete.  Our windows are covered with bars.  If you look closely, you can see the razor wire at the top of our car gate & walk-in gate.  William's regular job is to open/close the gate each time we drive someplace.

 If you are wondering what we do while Will is at the hangar and we are on summer vacation out of school, these pictures will help to show you.  Once in awhile, the kids beg to drive up to the Baptist Mission about 30 minutes away.  There is a pitiful little zoo, a small playground, a bakery and flower shop, a gift/souvenir/tourist shop, and a cafe.  Here Abby is sitting on the playground in a chair made from carving out some trees up on the mountain.  We will have to take some more photos to show you the different little areas up there.  This section is to be continued . . .                                                          

Back at home, the kids have captured some exotic pets.  William has always wanted a tarantula for a pet so we decided this year was the year to let him do that.  It still creeps me out but he seems to enjoy it.  Either that or he just enjoys creeping his mother out!  He has not held it yet and it is a challenge to find live insects for it to eat.  This is out on our front porch because I don't want the spider in my house!  Nobody has come up with a name for it yet so if any of you have some ideas, feel free to offer us some suggestions.  Missionaries that used to live in Haiti had mastered the art of making paper weights out of tarantulas.  I am finding myself very fond of that idea! 

Abby inherited a red-eared slider turtle from our neighbors who just left the country.  It lives in the grey tote locker so it can swim in the water.  We put a large stone in there for it to climb up on.  When we let it out in the yard, it likes to burrow under the dirt and rocks.  The dogs bark at it and try to play with it.  We like seeing it pop it's head quickly back into it's shell.  When it's scared, it will hiss at us!  This is in our foyer area inside the front door of our house.