(This post was written June 22) We have nearly completed our time in Costa Rica.
The near daily rains have sprung forth green growth from the ground all around. The weedwackers and horses are out on the sidewalks trimming back the grass and the cows can’t keep up with all the fresh green shoots behind our house.
We are recovering from dengue fever (both Devin and Luke) and thankful our platelets are back up to normal. The fever left us both pretty wiped out, though Devin recovered quicker.
Just like that, we’re in the rounds of “last time doing this, last time going there, last time seeing them” in the midst of all the logistics of sort-of-moving. We leave Costa Rica June 30, and arrive home to Seattle July 1.
We are grateful for many special last dinners, lunches and gatherings with different sets of friends – and being prayed for at church before leaving. We feel very loved and grateful as we leave!
We are excited to go home to Seattle, even as we will treasure the people and places we have gotten to know over the past year. Ethan especially fell in love with Costa Rica and seems the most likely to return for an extended stay some day.
We are so grateful for the experiences of God’s creation in the tropics, for all the language learning we have done and all the people we’ve met and for this grand adventure as a family.
We will be praying for and listening to/looking for how God will us to use this time in each of our lives/futures and in our family.
Thanks for reading!
[Post Script: We arrived home July 1 as planned, and have had a wonderful, busy, exciting two weeks adjusting back to life in Seattle. We look forward to catching up with you!]
Bruckner Year in Costa Rica 