The cone of shame

We took Larry & Lynn to the airport this afternoon, they should be back in Florida by now and headed home tomorrow. The week went by quick! It started uneventful, we went to the meeting Sunday and had a good group, I think 22. Larry & Lynn loved the Martinez family. And they liked them a lot too. They knew Justin's parents were coming, so they had a lunch all planned to feed us. It was really cute. 

 

Then Monday, we took them to the popular West End & West Bay Beach, to shop and swim. It was a beautiful day! At West Bay, because it is the big tourist hot spot, there are lots of locals walking up and down the beach trying to sell you stuff- jewelry, sunglasses, "do you want your hair braided, or a message honey?".. and the list goes on. No! I don't. Leave me alone! I don't liked bugged at the beach. Who would ever give in to this kind of thing? Oh, I guess tourists would. And we forgot, we were with some tourists..... Justin and I had went out snorkeling for awhile, and when we got back, there were Larry and Lynn getting rubbed down by a local lady giving them a massage. They were even all shiny from baby oil. Yikes! Trust me, that's not something kids want to see happening! We ran back down to the water to escape. 

 

Tuesday we took them in service, and had a very nice day. We got a lot of calls and studies home, and it turned into a pretty long day, I think it was almost 6 till we left Oak Ridge. We weren't breaking Larry & Lynn in easy! They had a good time though. And little did we know, it would be the only day we were out. We were planning another service day on Thursday, but Midas changed our plans. When we were getting ready Thursday morning, we heard this barking and growling outside, and I said to Justin, "that sounds like Midas". And it was. He apparently got left out or escaped through the screen door or something, and went to the neighbor's house and got in a fight with the dog there. Till Justin got down to the porch to find him, he was running down our driveway to come home. Not unscathed though! His eyelid was all ripped up. Fortunately, his eye was ok and in tact. But, his eyelid looked pretty bad. So Justin called our vet right away, but he had just left on a day trip to another island to work. Of all days! And he is the only vet on the island. So, he told us we would have to wait till 4pm, and he would meet us at his office. So instead of service, we spent the day at home with Midas, patching up his eye. We took him in at 4 to see Dr. Soto and he put a couple stitches in the top and bottom of his eyelid. He didn't have a cone to give him for his head, so he told us to make our own out of a bucket. Justin found a plant pot that seemed to be the perfect size, so we used that. So now Midas is wearing 'the cone of shame'. His eye is doing ok though, and looking much better today. So Midas was in his first (and hopefully his last) Honduran dog fight. So the end of our week was just spent at home. We didn't get to take Larry & Lynn as many places as we would have liked. Well, that will give us something to do next time. You'll have to hear all their experiences from them when they get back.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, I keep forgetting to mention, we have a trip planned to come home! We are leaving April 20th down here, and coming home for 2 weeks. So we will see most everybody then! I heard that that is when the Special Assembly Day is. So maybe we will crash that.