Josh & Alli's Place: July 2010

Well, we've made it safely back to Costa Rica! One of our bags did not make it here with us, but, praise the Lord, it arrived yesterday with all of its contents. We have been settling back into life here well. Josh started in the office again the day after we got back. I've been getting everything together at the house and getting everything in order. It's been a crazy few days, though. The first day we were back, it rained really hard in the afternoon. Suddenly streams of water started flowing down our living room wall. I had known that it could be a problem with the heavy rains here in Costa Rica, but thankfully it waited until we arrived to start flowing again. That night, we realized our toilet wasn't working properly. There was just no water coming into the tank. Sadly, I forgot at least two times and had to run back and forth between the kitchen sink and the toilet with our pitcher trying to fill up the tank. Then, this morning, Josh and I are in the bedroom getting ready when we suddenly hear this super loud hissing sound. I had no clue what was going on, just that it was loud. I wasn't sure if our fridge was about to explode or what. We look around into the kitchen, afraid to see exactly what was going on. Josh, of course, trying to be ever the protector, peeked around the corner first. He says that he thought that the propane tank we use to cook with was blowing up. All I saw was our kitchen filling up with TONS of steam. We realized that there was steam and water spurting out everywhere from the pila room. The pila room is a room off the kitchen that holds a big sink called a pila, very typical in latin american houses. We also have our washing machine in there. It was so crazy because, at first, we couldn't figure out where the water was coming from, just that it was spraying out everywhere in the pila room and a small flood was making its way into the kitchen. Finally, we realized that it was spraying out from where our mini water heater connects to the wall. After unsuccessfully trying to hold the connection to the wall, Josh found where to turn off all the water to the house. As he was working at the top of the driveway to turn off the water and water continued to gush out the broken pipe, I stood there sweeping all the water out the pila room door into the backyard. Needless to say, it was an interesting experience. We finally got it turned off, and Josh called Jose Luis, our go-to plumber, to fix it. The Ayers do alot of things, but plumbing isn't one of them. He just spent the afternoon fixing our hot water heater, the wiring to it, and the toilet. As I started blogging, Josh was sitting out on the porch with Jose Luis chatting. It's so amazing to see opportunities the Lord is giving us to meet people and make and impact for His kingdom, even if it's through broken water heaters and leaking toilets. Oh, when he was fixing the hot water heater, he found empty gecko eggs. So, yes, our geckos are multiplying:) The last picture is Josh holding the tiny egg.