DR trip!

Once again, we've gotta do some catching up on the blog, here... starting with our trip to the DR in June! My mom and dad let me go with them and a group of awesome people from church to visit our friends in Puerta Plata. My favorite part may have been the airplane rides- oh, wait, maybe swimming? Or, no- it was meeting tons of new friends! Or maybe helping build a new house? No, it must've been hanging with Sandra and her family at the beach! Oh, man... I can't decide... And I can't wait to go again!

walking in the community with new friends

Sunday service at the "rainbow church" in Aguas Negras

helping build

the heat required some regular cooling off...

daddy talking with 

too hot to wear clothes!

team awesome!

we took a cable car ride to the top of the mountain 

(i liked to call it a "car on a string")

with miss Mandy, getting off the cable car

hanging with my man Rex

exploring with Daddy

wandering around...

waiting for the "car on a string" to come pick us up, miss Mandy let me play on her phone- big hit!

my friend, Adrian! (oh, and McQueen, too...)

taking McQueen's wheels off... and getting help to put them back on again... over and over...

I liked to pretend to help with the construction project :-)

more of my buds!

playing basketball with the big kids 

more Adrian Q-time!

Tony!

and then basketball inside when it was just too hot...

miss Mandy, drawing a map of the community so we know our way around...

visit to the beach

 

... but we didn't get to play and swim at this beach

sitting in the shade with more buddies

and when it got to hot to do much else, we would draw and color inside

watching a show with my main man, Benne!

lunchtime in the school

did I mention how awesome Adrian is??

team awesome hanging out at L'Oase

my favorite spot during team meetings

our last day was beach day!

chillin in the carribean with my friends!

and mommy, too!

back at our "vacation house", as I liked to call it, cooling off with Tim