Friday, February 27, 2009

First pictures

We made it! As promised, here are some pictures

The boys sleeping on the plane. This was the last leg (Brussels to Monrovia). Fortunately the boys slept most of the 7 hours.

Here's the view out the airplane window on the way. I think this was somewhere over Algeria.


Here's the coastline of Liberia.


We sprayed the boys rooms last night before bed. We went back into Colton's room an hour later and there were these guys laying dead on the floor. Colton decided he'd rather move his bed to the room Christopher and Kobe were sharing (they only had 3 dead roaches).



Here's the master bedroom




The living room...I think Kobe is inspecting Colton's bug bites.





Jamie in the kitchen.





and the boys bedroom. Beyond through the door is a classroom that the last missionaries added.



There's a termite mound in front of our house.



And there's our house. We have a bamboo fence around the front yard. We need to install a new roof, hopefully before rainy season. It needs lots of other work, but overall it is pretty solid.



And there is the view looking south from our house down the road.


That's all for now. I'll try to get more pictures of the area and Monrovia and post them later this weekend.








7 comments:

Brandi said...

Yeah!!!! Thanks for pictures! So excited for you guys to really be there now. I can't believe it!

Brandi

Anonymous said...

Great pics Rusty. Keep them coming. It's like we're there with you (without the cockroaches)

John

Anonymous said...

Good to see you in your new home. What an expirence. We think of you all often.

Anonymous said...

Garth and David say Hi to Colton. They want to know if Colton is beating on the termite mound and how hot it is there. They loved the picture of the boys on the plane. We are thinking of you all.

Marsha McInnis

Country Chick said...

That is great you guys made it there safe and sound. Take care and best of luck with everything. That is really amazing to do that with your kids! Looking forward to more pictures!

Jamie and Rusty Laird said...

this is colton and its about 90 DEGREES, and yes i am beating on the termite mound and i made a hole in it and they were mad p.s. there heads are HHUUGGEE

Anonymous said...

My sister lives in AFRICA!!!!