Rainy Monday morning

Good morning friends.
It rained on and off all last night and it is currently pouring at 6:40am this morning.  But the skies look bright in the distance, so I am confident it will soon stop and we can start work right after breakfast.
We had an awesome day yesterday.  We sadly saw Steven off to the airport but then we had a late breakfast and spent some time in the pool.  At 10:30 we left for the canopy tour (zipline adventure), which was only about 20 minutes up the mountain from camp.  We had to wait for another large group of people that had booked the tour so we had about an hour to walk around the trails in the woods.  I was not that impressed with the woods, as it was just a bunch of straight non-descript trees.  Once the tour started and we drove to the top of the woods, our guide started talking and it made sense. 
What we had been walking in was a man made cypress forest that they planted and selectively harvest for lumber.  After getting our safety instructions and equipment demonstration we walked over to the edge of the cypress forest and we entered the protected cloud forest.  (we learned that a cloud forest is a type of rain forest and it's main purpose is to collect moisture and let it soak into the ground which feeds several massive aquifers that supply the water to a large portion of Costa Rica).
This was like stepping into a picture book.  The forest was so thick and green that only about 2% of the area on the ground actually gets sunlight.  Then there is a middle layer and then the top canopy.  Our zip line platforms were all between the middle and canopy layer where there is a little space between foliage.  I have to admit that some of us were a little leery of stepping off a perfectly good 'tree fort' into the open air, but after starting on a small slow line, we quickly wanted more.  The lines got progressively longer and faster until the last one which was a couple hundred yards long and almost 200 feet over a ravine.  It was one of the cooler things that I have done in my life.  We put some pictures in the slide show on the right side of the blog.  I will try to post some video soon.
We thank God for the beauty that we saw today and we also thank Him for getting Steven home safely (although we hear that he did get welcomed back to the USA by sitting in some bronx traffic for a while ;-(
We would appreciate everyones continues prayers for safety on the job site and for wisdom as we tackly the tricky job of roof rafters today.  I am reminded of Matthew 19:26 as I think about what lies ahead today.  Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”  I admit that I am taking this great verse out of context as Jesus is referring to how man can be saved from the punishment that our sins deserve, but I don't think Jesus would mind me using it for encouragement of our task ;-)
Adios.
-rob