Tico Tuesday, September 18th

This past weekend was full of fun and time spent with the kids at the Bible Home. Friday evening it started with the arrival of the torch.
 A flame of liberty started at the Costa Rican border with Nicaragua about 2 days beforehand. Students run the torch from town to town-Olympic flame/Pony Express style-until it reaches Cartago, the former capital of Costa Rica. It splits off though, and the flame arrive to different towns all over the country. A group of kids from the Bible Home was selected to run the torch up from Barva (the town 4k down the mountain). They arrived drenched from the rain, but with smiling and with torch in hand. We had a little civic ceremony with pretty much every patriotic song Costa Rica has and then marched around the Bible Home with the homemade lanterns (most made of shoeboxes) with real candles inside. Thankfully not too many fingers and lanterns were burnt. After the march, a whole bunch of kids from the Jardin house hung their lanterns on a tree outside. Our Independence Tree looked so cool! (I've never been near real candles on a Christmas tree that I'm aware of, so this was neat to see). Then Saturday we had the Independence Day parade in the morning and the kids' parents came up to watch them and have a picnic lunch afterward. Thank God it didn't rain! More pictures are on my facebook!
Blessings on your week!
Love,
Carrie

P.S. Random aside: to see a live performance of a hit pop song arranged for choir and orchestra by one of my good friends from high school, watch The Today Show on Friday!