Adventuring in Chiriqui: Day 4 (Sunday)

Danny and David asleep

Signs, signs, signs!

Definitely deep moments

Veggies!

Crafts

Waiting

Walking (but not more than 80 KPH)

Walking

Walking

Waiting

Sunday, we returned to Panama City.

We expected huge traffic jams and even heard that the traffic was completely blocked.

But it wasn't.  At least not for us.

Once more, Aris did a splendid job of driving.  At one point, I called her "Queen of the Road" in a cultural reference to the song "King of the Road", but of course, cultural references don't always transfer.  In fact they rarely do.  So much for that!

For much of the trip, I worked on my rap (you'll have to come to CHI for that!) and we talked and played word and math games with Danny and David - who are VERY bright kids!  I even played along with the guessing games of naming words starting with or ending with a particular letter.  The boys were really good at this and I thought back to similar games on similar trips in another country and another time.  

My personal favorite from Anna Rachel's youth and all of our time sailing is "Dancing Daringly in Denmark."  It gets tricky very fast - especially with certain letters like X and Z. There just aren't that many Verb-Adverb-Location combos available so after the first round, it's almost impossible to find them.  We roared with laughter many times!

Aris made fabulous time - it took us just 7 hrs to return - the same amount of time that it took to get to Chiriqui.

And what an amazing trip this has been!  So many thanks to Aris and her family for a memorable weekend with really wonderful folks.  A text that I got after we had departed said, "Now you have a Panamanian family."  Which made me so very happy.