Guanaja Photo Flashback

A good friend who has participated in several mission trips, both to Guanaja and here to Gracias, sent us these fun pictures. We don't know the exact dates they were taken, but probably it was in the first year or two that we lived on the island. We lived there from February 2001 until November of 2005.


See how hot and sweaty - and sunburned - we look? That's about how we looked, for five solid years. We never did adapt well to the heat on the north coast.

Russell, on the left, is now 18. He was approximately 12 in that picture. Kirstin was 14, and is now 20. Both of them now stand behind me when we line up for pictures! That's Rachel in front, she was about 10 then, and is now 16.

Kirstin just looked over my shoulder at this picture and said, "Wow, that isn't a very flattering photo of any of us!" She's right, but that is just what we looked like. The hair style for the girls was almost always pulled back into a high ponytail, with no layers or bangs to get into your eyes when boating. Wearing long hair down on your neck was too hot to be endured for long, and any kind of styling would just fall apart in the humidity. We all had to learn how to handle our hair all over again, when we moved to the mountains!



Ahhh, there's Boo at the beach. She looks like she's enjoying herself, doesn't she? Boo was only four when we moved to Honduras, so she doesn't remember living in the states. These beach shots always made people raise their eyebrows, when we talked about the hardships of living on the island. ;-D