The first day on the job site
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| Ray and Carol starting to dig the foundation
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| Foundation starting to take shape
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| The current residents - Leaf cutter ants!
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10am Break time - Coffee, Pineapple, and some unnamed fruit
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| Lee swinging the pick!
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| Ray smiling for the camera
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| Ray #2 taking a much needed break from shoveling
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Ray dumping another load of dirt over the hill
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| The neighbors - admiring the workers
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| Another neighbor boy sneaking a peak
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| A finished habitat home - same floor plan as the one we are building
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Coffee beans that surround and employ the neighborhood
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| The job shack at break time!
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| The hill down to the jobsite
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| The manager Mateo managing to talk with Marlin and Lee
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Shocking but true a power pole
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| The road home
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| Ray and Carol walking to the bus
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| Lee, Ed, Ray, and Ray walking to the bus
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A costa rican view on the walk home
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| A local church
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| The work crew having a soda
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| Digging the septic tank hole
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More digging - the foundation
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| The worst wheel barrows in the world
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| Marlin taking a well needed water break! Very hot that day
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| 110lb bags of cement and a 1000 blocks
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the foundation is dug! 3 feet deep all around
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| Rebar - so much rebar to bend
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| 9 buckets of gravel, 7 of sand, 1 bag of cement, and add water!
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| The new home owner
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Alexandra and Laura painting the church
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| Ben and the manager Mateo scrapping paint at the church
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| Linda, Stephanie, and Aileen painting away at the church
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| Carol helping to clean up the church
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Lee and Ray building a wall (AKA hiding from the paint brushes)
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| Ed helping to build a wall at the church (AKA not painting)
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| Ray using what we had to finish the job
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| Ray and Gert working hard at the church
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A Day off with a little time to swim at the river
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| The sunset at Jaco Beach
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| Lee and Rachel enjoying the sunset at Jaco
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| Ray, Ed, Aileen, and Laura geting some coffee
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Sunset plus 5 minutes
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| Back to work - pouring the foundation by hand
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| Mixing contrete with the foreman Fabio
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| Manager Mateo and the new home owner
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Ben and the future home owner
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| The crew mixing and shaking
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| Lee, Ray, and Ben hauling sand down the steep steep hill.
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| Ray and Lee admiring Mateo's first shovel of the day
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Ed mixing Mescuilla
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| Marling, Ben, and Carol laying bricks
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| The reason we didnt loose weight! Our amazing lunch host Merissa
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| The crew hard at work still!!!
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More brick laying
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| A sun burned Ben
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| Aileen and Gert helping with lunch
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| Gert helping some more
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Fabio the Foreman
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| It rained that day - wait it rains everyday says Lee and Laura
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| O how hard it rains
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| Lunch in a rain storm
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How could you not love this chef? Beans and Rice O yeah!
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| Ray about to loose at Farkell
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| Ed and Aileen - Ed is so proud of that Dos Pinos shirt!
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| More progress not quit 5 rows though
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Kids of Costa Rica
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| More progress
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| Ben's new friends
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| The last day and the whole group
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More Kids
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| The drive home
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