Chame, Eh?

Our Panama adventures began with our new friends Pam and Ron Picked us up from the airport in Panama City and took us to Chame which sounds like Cha May to stay with them for our first week in there cute little guest house. 

Going through Panama City

They live on a big piece of property beside a landing strip. Half their house was a hangar for Ron's planes.

They had a horse, cows, chickens, turkeys, dogs, cats and even iguanas that their caretaker Alfredo would eat. 

Lots of bugs, frogs, geckos and bats liked to come around as well. 

This is a necessity...

I found a bat one morning in the door, I wasn't too happy, thank goodness I has Colin to save me!

The heat is a story itself, I have never experienced heat like this. It is as though you are living in a sauna. 30 degrees and 90 percent humidity is winter to these people!  You can't have too many showers a day. We felt like slugs and would only want to sit in front of a fan all day. Thank goodness they had air conditioning in the bedroom so we could get some sleep at night. 

This is how hot it gets haha

Since this is the rainy season we have already had some awesome storms, lightening lighting up the whole house blue and thunder so loud the windows would shake. The torrential downpours and wind may seem like a bummer to you but for us it was total relief. We have never been so grateful for rain. 

Not only does it cool things down but it makes everything so lush and beautiful. It's really tropical here. 

We got to visit Punta Chame, a cute little beach area which unfortunately had a lots of garbage littered on the beach, they apparently only clean up when they know tourists are arriving. We came unexpected I guess. 

We went to a cute little town called El Valle. There is no garbage on the streets and it is very clean. It is on a crater so we went to some hot springs and had a mud bath...brown warm water that is good for you...tourist trap? Well We fell for it!  

We tried service in both Spanish and English. Spanish of course is so refreshing because everyone has such respect and love for what the bible has to say and for God. Jehovah's name is used a lot here which is really cool. Every few houses someone invites you in or to sit with them to have us teach them something from the bible. One girl had the new world translation already and said it was a gift from her boyfriend haha. 

The one day in English was a bit tougher, we went to the main malls and looked for white people. They were friendly of course, most from the states but of course had the same responses as back home. We were a little bit disappointed at first but then we found out that there are lots of Panamanians that speaks English fluently and will study the bible.

 Cute little guy out in service. He knows   his numbers and colors in English :) 

Chame was good start and we got to know Pam who has travelled the world and has amazing experiences to share. She treated us like family and got us ready for panama. We were ready though for puerto armuelles