Christ is risen from the dead!

April 21st, 2014

Happy Easter!  Wow.  It is finally here.  Throughout my time here in Costa Rica thinking ahead to Easter has always been my final check point.  Now I am here.  I have reached that final check point.  There are no more big grand plans.  Where did the time go?

Easter is such a joyful day!  It means family, going out to breakfast, dressing up, chocolate everywhere, getting to say “Alleluia” again, and rejoicing that Christ has risen!  That last one is most definitely the best part.

But sadly, my day lacked most of those things.

Breakfast was cereal and toast, I went to mass without my family (well, Lizzie’s practically family at this point, and she joined me), there was no Easter egg hunt, no family party of any sorts, no Easter basket to wake up to, and no Easter feast.

We were supposed to go over to mama tica’s famliy’s house, but due to a lack of communication it never happened. #languagebarriers

So instead I finished writing my final paper thats due for my last day of class tomorrow, skyped with my family back home, and watched some How I Met Your Mother.

It was a cloudy and lonely Easter, friends.  At least the best part couldn’t be taken away: the fact that Jesus is resurrected! Lent is over! I still rejoice for that. 🙂

The final week is here.  Five full days and six nights left.
Where oh where does time go I ask you?

Happy Easter from the Lizzie&Melissa family!

Snapchat from the cousins (the volume icon got in the way of my screen shot)

Skyping with the little brother.

Mom, aunt Cathleen, and Mary Margaret trying to get in contact with me to skype