I have failed (Donna) as a blogger.  We missed December and January.  I would say that we have been so busy, but that would not be true.  I just plain forgot.  Will try to do better in the future  This is a picture of the big tent over the temple site to keep out the rain so they can keep working during the rainy season.  It is very hot and humid inside.

The Tent over the temple construction site

We flew back to the states in December, just in time for a granddaughter's wedding and Christmas.

We ordered about 50 packages from Amazon Prime, and had a great time figuring out how to get them all to fit in a suitcase.   Thanks to Reed's skill as a packer, they all fit, and we were even under the weight limit for the airlines.

Very nice to be back in the cold and snow

We travelled to Rio de Janeiro in January for a construction conference.  Reed did a presentation, and did a good job.  At least everyone laughed a lot, so they had a good time.  The day after, we all went river rafting.  Our boat lost it's bottom, so we  were sitting in water for an hour or so until they brought another one.  It was fun!

On the bus back from the river

On the river with friends

Both of us (this is Reed writing) are struggling on how to use Blogger. There has got to be a much more friendly system. Pictures and narrative don't stay in place the way they should. Formatting is a pain. Perhaps it is just old age that is getting to both of us and we just can't handle new things?  For example, nothing that I can do will remove the underlining of the preceding three sentences!!!!!!  What a pain!!!!  Interesting, the underlining disappears in the preview mode.  What the heck!