Beach Trip for Carmen's Birthday

Tommy, Tim, Scarleth, Leo, and I went to the beach and brought Carmen and her younger sister Griselda with us. Carmen turned 28 and Tommy really wanted them to join us.

Carmen is 28 years old and was just married by Tommy about 3 weeks ago, to Luis. They have a 9 year old girl Xarling, and a 4 year old, Julie..I love them both to death. Their family is as involved a family in Pastor Walters church in Santa Matilde as any. They are very faithful and have such giving hearts. Luis has built houses for the widows with the wood we got from customs this past month and Carmen is in charge of Sunday School. Both girls are in Sunday school and morning classes M-F.

Carmen has 2 younger sisters, one is very involved in church and youth group, and the other is becoming involved. Margarita is 18 and expecting a child on my birthday, July 2. Griselda is 16 and loves to help at youth group and sings in the praise band some friday nights. All the sisters love to dance with Linda on Saturdays and any other days their time allows.

We had a lot of fun and Tim tried to teach me to surf. The boards we rented were actually not very good and the rental place didn't have wax so it was next to impossible to get up. Would have been hard for anyone, but for a first time i didn't stand a chance...Tim got up a few tiems but took some pretty hard falls because without wax his feet just came off just after getting a short ride.

We got back to Leon and hungout with Scarleth and some of her roommates for a couple hours.