Argentina Update - December 2007 - Part I: Our Camp

Argentina Update –December 2007 – Part I: Our Camp

Hello to everyone. With this update, I want to give you all a photo tour. I am trying to assemble some pictures so this will be a several part update for easier downloading. To start, I know that you all are interested in how we are living here so the first part of the tour will be pictures of our camp.

This is the entrance to our camp. Abby saw that one of our neighbors had a sign that said, “No Pasar” (no passing) so she made one for our property too, writing the words with a leaf on some scrap wood.

We are all sleeping in the same tent now. Pop bought us a ten person tent to camp in a while back and Dane was able to fit our double bed, a bunk bed, and a baby bed into it so that we don’t have to sleep on the ground. It is really nice being all together in the same sleeping area. The small children often wake in the night and need help going to the bathroom, so it is a lot easier this way. In front of the tent you can see the concrete that Dane, Javier, and Andres just poured last week.

This is an inside view of the tent. Dane, the baby, and I sleep in the double bed. Elijah and David sleep on the bottom of the bunk bed and Abby and Sarah sleep on the top bunk. Elisabeth sleeps in the baby bed because she is still small enough to do so. The baby bed is on the other side of the bunk bed.

This picture is of our showering area underneath the water tower. Dane surrounded the bottom of the water tower with plastic so that we would have an area to clean up.

This is a picture of our outhouse. It is just an outhouse, although, a special one, because it accommodates very tall people and has a toilet that we can flush with hauled water.

This is the inside of the outhouse.

This is a picture of our garden. It is nice and large and is shaded so that we can grow vegetables year round.

This picture is inside our kitchen tent. Looks just like a regular kitchen – almost – huh? In this tent we have three tables: one for Dane’s office and the other two for preparing food and for gathering to eat.

This is a picture of our hen house and chicken yard.

This is the inside of the chicken house. It has fourteen nest boxes and can accommodate many more chickens than we have.

Well that is the end to the tour of our campsite. Write us if you have any questions or if you would like any other pictures. I will be sending out a couple more updates with more pictures soon. Take care and hope to talk to you soon.

Jessica