More Adventures of......La Pata Libre

So if you remember the little story I told about "La Pata Libre" when I came back from Nicaragua, then maybe you'll understand the title of this post. Here's a refresher in case we're at an impasse. I had a pet duck in Nicaragua, we bonded. We were going to eat the duck, but then it flew away, and I was secretly so happy and felt that possibly this was a sign for my life...that I was on the right track, although things were a little hairy there for a while. In Spanish "duck" is "pata"....so I am tackling life these days as La Pata Libre...in solidarity with my non-eaten Nicaraguan duck friend, and other ducks around the world.

So.....we have ducks of our own. A month or so ago, Ben decided he wanted ducks. He wanted them for eggs...so he researched and got the perfect kind of duck...Khaki Campbell's. They are good layers, they dont fly much and are altogether very chill, like us. So we ordered them in the mail, and a week ago we got a call from the post office saying our ducks were in....so we went and got 5 little beautiful day old birds, brought them home, rigged up a cage in the kitchen, and that is where they are to this day. The photos are of their firest day in the backyard and the cage in the house. They are growing so fast and spend about half of their lives sleeping, and the other half split between several activities which include trying to swim in the water bowl and knocking it over, pooping, peeping, eating, and looking cute.

So all is coming full circle in this blog entry. We have ducks of our own....and the Central American part is being revisited as well. Yes, as I am typing this, I am waiting for Ben to get home so he can take me to Louisville where I will spend the night and then fly out tomorrow for Mexico City. I will spend 2 months travelling around, ending up in Nicaragua and seeing many things between Mexico City and Managua, Nicaragua. My little brother Zak will meet me for my last few weeks and we will frolic around Nicaragua like happy little ducks and I will show him everything I loved and we will find new things to love together. I am super stoked.

Then I am back to Lexington in August to start my new wonderful job at Kentucky Refugee Ministries organizing adult education, literacy, cultural orientation, job placement, international form-filling out...and lots of other exciting things. For the first time in a while, I will say I have a bit of a plan.

So I will be updating this more regularly now that I have more stories to tell and since many of you will have limited ways of getting ahold of me. Love you much,
Bree