The following is the latest message I have received from Ceci in discord on how their Christmas holiday went.
"Thank you for your thoughts and prayers. We are home safely but without my son and his family. It was impossible to bring them here to the compound we are being watched so need to be extra careful. I hope you and yours had a great Christmas. Did you get to church to hear your cousin sing Silent Night?
We had a good Christmas with people in the compound on the 24th. The kids got home made presents, the pastor came after lunch to lead a special Christmas service here and the kids surprised us with a small Christmas concert. Everyone chipped in to make a great Christmas dinner. I stuffed a small pig with stuffing that had apples and raisins home made bread crumbs with herbs from our garden. The veggies were from our gardens too.
After the festivities we managed to sneak away early to go to Managua . There were a few check points, the first ones we managed to breeze through wishing them a Merry Christmas and giving gifts of cigarettes, homemade cookies and a bottle of Coke. We do what is necessary in war...
The last one was the one that had us worried. They took the plate numbers on the car, copies of our ID'S and asked a lot of annoying questions. We knew then that we would be not be bringing them back to the compound. While there we were able to have video chats with my sons and their families as well as my brother and his family. After we were treated to a very large roast beef dinner with all the trimmings including my favorite Caesar salad! We did manage a quiet Christmas service at my son's neighbor's house.
It was very odd travelling to a Managua this year, no Christmas lights or decorations. No Christmas music. No churches having services. No cheery greetings or smiles. But the Grinch did not dampen our spirits! We came home to bad news though...about ten minutes before we arrived, our eldest dog, Banshee passed away quite suddenly. She was old and our most faithful guard dog. She will be sorely missed. We had a solemn funeral lead by the children of the compound.
I guess we will be having another funeral this morning for Frisky the cat. I really hope and pray that things will settled down in the New Year. But I really don't think so. We listened in on the Christmas address of the Madame Comrade's speech where she assured everyone that she will be the next president of this country. Does not bode well... I am off to get myself a very strong coffee...
Sorry this had to be so long and in two parts. Feel free to share the information with our steemit and weku friends."
That is the DM message I received on Wednesday on Discord and I was extremely happy to get it from her. In further conversation with her I did find out that the normal driving time from her compound to her son’s place in Managua is three hours but it took five hours driving time each way with the stops at the check points.
Just like last time I posted an update from her any earnings this post receives will be transferred to her account once the earnings are paid out.
So that is latest from our friend, please keep her and her family in your prayers if you would.
Until next time,
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