Familia Euceda Warner: Day 22, July 21, 2011

This morning was a bit sad, especially for the kids, since Dad was heading home, back to Honduras. Unfortunately, he couldn’t stay any longer since the next season’s planting was waiting on him. Have you seen his greenhouses? He has one in tomatoes: can you see the vines laid down along the walkway? That’s the part that has finished producing. Since the plants keep growing and producing for about 36 feet (they can produce twice that, but the production is substantially lower so he plans to start afresh after that height), David lays them down to be able to reach the part that is in production.

And he has another he just finished building that he will be plowing like this with oxen to prepare the soil. Oxen inside a greenhouse – can you imagine? After each greenhouse has produced one crop of tomatoes, he’s going to plant a season of strawberries in each.

Anyway, he had to head home to tend to his crops. While Corita took David to the airport shuttle, Kim, Nancy, Raquel, and Joel bought lift tickets and rode up into the high ski area of Beaver Creek.

They took a hike around the area and ate lunch at the ski lodge.

After coming down, Joel tried out the bungee trampoline and Raquel tried out the climbing wall.

Since Corita hadn't had the chance to go up the ski lift, Raquel took Corita up to show her around. On the way up, a storm hit, but the first few drops that fell were actually snow. "They look like cotton!" exclaimed Raquel as they swirled around us on the ski lift. They got a bit wet, but dried off and warmed up in the lodge before it all cleared up and they headed back down with a great view of the Beaver Creek resort.

They swam some more while the old folks relaxed in the Jacuzzi. The kids were especially happy about having some play time with their new friend Isabella.

After dinner, the ladies got spruced up and headed over for a modeling shoot in front of the Posh! Hair Salon.

Joel was our fashion photographer, but he said he wasn’t going to do that when he grows up because he’s going into ice skating as a career. So, since he needed to practice his ice skating, we headed over to the rink. Isabella wasn’t too sure about the ice skating, but Raquel helped her out and she started to get the hang of it.