Around our town on Independence Day

After it got too hot to do much more painting and despite sunscreen, we were beginning to get burned; we decided to pack some lunches at home and take the kids to a Mirador (look-out) on a mountain range about 20 minutes from our home. This is Volcan Turrialba. The white in the "v" is a cloud. The white that is slightly curved to the left is actually a smoke stack that is spewing from it. We rarely see this Volcano due to covering clouds, so we were excited to get an updated picture. Right now, the scientologists here in Costa Rica are not exactly sure what is going on with this volcano as far as a possible major eruption. We do know that they have asked residents below the volcano to live elsewhere due to sulfur.
While we zoomed in, this is the best picture that we could get. We are standing at the Mirador in the town called Ujarras, about twenty minutes from our home, but on another mountain range. Toward center-right in this picture you see in the distance a small town. That's our town - Orosi in the valley of the mountain, also known as "Orosi Valley".

Now we are home getting ready to go to Bible Study. Our good missionary friends from Michigan have their Pastor here for this week. He is also a counselor and serving their church here by offering Christian counseling courses. While he only speaks English, he does have someone interpreting into Spanish for him, so what an opportunity for us to attend a Bible Study in our native language! Also invited from our church was our Pastors and their wives, and a couple of the Youth. Tonight, we are the taxi for these people as well. I know it will be a real blessing from what we learned from his teaching the other night, and a good time of fellowship with those from our church!