~Miracle Monday...Cartagena part 3!~

~If you recall one reason for our taking this trip (the main reason being that we really wanted to visit our 2 churches and encourage our believers) was to celebrate Kimberly finishing 8th grade.  So, our last day in Cartagena we decided to take our family on a boat ride to a neat place called "White Beach."  We got a great deal on tickets to ride this boat with lunch included.~

~Here's Elijah, Mary, and Noah on the boat.  ~

~Kimberly, Sarah, and I on the boat.  Our shinning faces were #1 because we belong to King Jesus...and #2 because we had put on sunscreen.  =) ~

~Leaving Cartagena.~

~Jesus gave us a beautiful sunny day!~

~Cartagena in the distance.~

~We passed this fun lighthouse.~

~We found these 2 cute smiling children aboard the boat and took their picture.  =)  (That's our Mary and Elijah). ~

~Elijah found himself a little peep hole (port hole) to look out to the water.~

~Our 5 sweet kids.~

~Phillip, Noah, Elijah, and Sarah.~

~The side of our boat, the waves, and Cartagena WAY in the distance now.~

~Mommy and her sweet Mary.~

~Another lighthouse.~

~Kimberly and her little Mary.  They are inseparable!~

~Silly lil' Mary.~

~When we got to the ocean, we found this little snowman "sandman" that a previous someone had made.~

~Little Elijah really enjoyed playing in the sand....~

~When he wasn't in the water.~

~Noah, Sarah, and Elijah.~

~Sarah, Kimberly, Elijah (telling you he's 4), and Noah.~

~Our yummy lunch, which we GULPED down, so we could run back and play in the water and.....~

~and in the SAND again. =) (Our Sweet little Mary)~

~"Mr duck" (I think it must be Elijah in the duck floaty), and Sarah.~

MIRACLE MONDAY...
Phillip was wearing his glasses and was holding a child in waist-deep water.  A wave came up and took his glasses off and they were GONE before he could catch them.  So, he, Kimberly and Sarah began to start feeling/looking in the dark water to TRY to see if they could locate his glasses.  They searched for quite awhile, PRAYING THE WHOLE TIME.   Kimberly later FOUND THEM with her feet...on the ocean floor SOME DISTANCE AWAY!  How we PRAISE THE LORD for helping Phillip to find his glasses!
~Little Mary, Phillip, and Elijah.~

~I was SO SAD that I missed getting a picture of our boys wearing their goggles... so I took this fun picture of our silly boys after we got back to Bogota. =) ~

Then we took the boat ride back to Cartagena, took a taxi back to Bro. Rigoberto and Sis. Ilce's house, HURRIEDLY packed our things, said our goodbyes, and ran out the door to catch our plane back to our home in Bogota.   And, yes, we were still sort of "sandy" from our day at the ocean, but there was NO TIME to clean up.
~Little EXHAUSTED Mary fell asleep while we were waiting to board our airplane...AS DID...~

~Tired little Elijah...AND even...~

~Our Noah fell asleep in his seat too.~

~Myself, Phillip, little sleeping Mary, and Noah on the airplane.~

~Sarah, little sleeping Elijah, and Kimberly happily heading back home.~

~God gave us a great 45 min. flight home to Bogota.  We nearly FROZE to death when we got off the plane.  We had been in Florida-type weather, and we arrived at night in Bogota (located in the Andes mountains), and it was a chilly 45 degrees or so.
Jesus helped us to catch a nice taxi, and we were DELIGHTED to be back to our home.  This is what the clock said when I got up to our room.  How we THANK JESUS for giving us a GREAT profitable time/fellowship/services with our people at our 2 churches, and a wonderful safe family time too!
Thanks for your prayers!~