Muchacho Polaco

Matt and Dana recently returned from Morocco with some treasures for us that imcluded these fine looking clothes. I look so good.

Abraham and Martha had another baby shower at Gabby’s house this evening. There should probably be a limit to how many showers one can have. But the food is always good.

I spend some time changing the bulbs and cleaning the blades of the ceiling fans today. Nearly died.

David invited me to their families country house (not sure what else to call it) yesterday for some carne asada and to meet their Canadian friends that live here in town. The food was great but the plague of flies and heat was a bit much.

We have seen better days and we miss them. Last Friday, Yun and I were at the store when she complained of some abdominal pain. She rested a while in the office and after an hour or so decided to drive home. By the time she made it home, she was much worse, so much so that she needed to be rushed to the hospital. I met her there.

We spent all night in the ER while she underwent an array of various tests. Nothing found was conclusive. Her pain increased. We checked into the hospital that night and remained Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and we continue therr today (Tuesday). She had a surgery yesterday that took somewhere between 2-3 hours, but I wasn’t able to see her for a total of 5 hours.

In addition to a number of cysts, of which some have broken and their inner fluid spread throughout her body, she also has endometrial tissue connecting some of her organs that should not be connected. It was rather complicated we were told to detangle it all.

She has been in immense pain. Hopefully that is now past. And hopefully tomorrow we can return to our own bed.

Emma Esperanza Gomez Montaña was born to Orlando and Ana last Friday. For small parents, she is a big baby. She will be baptized this Sunday.

Joel, Talitha, and the family left ua last Tuesday as they head on to Cancun. To my surprise, there’s now a direct flight between our two cities and we can get to Cancun for under $100 now round trip. I’m pretty excited about that.

We had a nice time with them. It’s been 13 years since they last visited us. We hope to soon be able to visit them and their home in Switzerland or with Joel’s family in Sicily.

Last night Sergio and I started a new class from Reformed Theological Seminary. The class is “Ecclesiology and Scraments” and thus far has been mostly great. We finished the first three classes last night. There were moments that were profound, but a few others that were rather tangential. We have to be finished in 2 months.

Sergio was kind enough to bring a Belgian sour last night that has been aging for a few years. It was quite spectacular.

Blessed Tuesday we had friends arrive from Switzerland. So this week we are spending with them in Kino. The weather has been glorious and the sunsets beautiful.

They have three children which are extremely well-behaved. This is a nice contrast to what we are used to. They are obsessed with our dogs and play with them constantly. I’m sure the dogs will need at least a month or two to recuperate.

I forgot our bottle opener for the wine, so I found a screw in a wall socket and using that with Scouts leash we were able to assemble our own homemade bottle opener that works just fine.

This photo was taken about a week ago, but it seems it was taken many months ago.