Day 13...

I can hardly believe it's been so long since I last updated! Not a ton of new things to update on, but a few little fun adventures have ocurred along the way.

Monday night we had a breakfast for dinner extravaganza. Not entirely intentional, but it was a lot of fun! A few people went to Wallyball that afternoon, but the rest of us stayed back to rest. I decided to make my first batch of French toast, since we have had a bunch of loaves of bread. Meanwhile, some of the others decided pancakes sounded good too. So one of the guys from Wisconsin, Jeremy, flipped the pancakes and I did the french toast. Everyone had fun helping get it all together and we had at least 5 of us all running around the kitchen. Colleen helped me serve the french toast by sifting some powdered sugar onto the french toast...because everyone knows it's all in the presentation! :-) Colleen was only with us for 4 days, and she is from North Carolina doing some research on different Christian and secular medical missions organizations. She left yesterday and it was weird having someone here for such a short time! We had a great time with her while she was here though.

Tuesday was a fun day! We got up and went to the "Happy House"( Casa de alegría) which was a home for girls who have been abused. We did basically the same thing we did the day before... looking for anything that was out of the ordinary so we could refer to doctors. A lot of them seemed to have eye infections and other things that spread easily among lots of people in close contact with each other. We got some pictures with them at the end and got home in the afternoon, but not too late. So we were supposed to go to the little baby...

Ok, so at this point, I was expecting to have to go somewhere and I meant to hit save and instead hit post. However, I have much much much more to tell but I think I'll break it up into separate posts so each one isn't so long.

As for the rest of Tuesday... we were going to the little baby orphanage again but some of us had to "get sick"to stay back and decorate and prepare for a little surprise celebration for Iris. Tomás was trying to get off work early and then we would get some food started until he got home. He would bring the rest and we'd have it all decorated and surprise Iris when they got back. Well, things didn't go quite as planned unfortunately. Charlotte, Amy & I decorated a bit while a couple friends of Tomás & Iris's came to help. We made some hamburgers and thought we'd get started on cooking them because we were running out of time. However, we had some trouble finding the grill.... we found this little Hibachi grill in the kitchen storage room and so we attempted to light it which was dreadfully unsuccessful. It was absolutely hilarious though. I have some great pictures that I will hopefully be able to upload soon. Facebook is giving me a bit of trouble with it.

Anyway, so Iris and everyone got back before Tomás did so we had decided to just cook the hamburgers on the stove to save time. Tomás eventually arrived and we ended up taknig her outside to sing happy birthday with her cake.... then the guys set off some fireworks. A few they set off from the hospital water tower so they went pretty high. It was cool. Then we made the rest of the food and had dinner. It was a lovely evening! :-)