May 19, 2012

Breakfast at Sandy's was excellent again! Pancakes, scrambled eggs with ham, tortillas, tomatoes, bannans with cream, orange juice, coffee or tea. Very, very filling!

Stopped by the bakery to order 100 cookies for our lunch of pizza!!! Love that pizza! Today at the Casa Hogar was craft and game day! We started by making necklaces with the crosses that Larry Avery made for each child. Then on to the games! Started with the three legged race with three teams. Then the sack rack, again with same three teams. Limbo dance with the smallest going under first. All the kids participated while Doug and Chris sang the limbo song! So fun! Water balloons were next. Still with the same three teams-little ones, elementary and older children. So much laughter and so muh water. Next came volleyball. We had purchased the net and Marshall, Ben and Chris found the poles and dug the holes. All the children of all ages, including us, could play which made for a fun day! Inside for free form foam craft (say that three times fast). So many of the students were really creative. I even received a special art picture with my name on it from Angelina. Juan Fransico and his praise band practiced for awhile. What an excellent Mexican rehersal. They have 2 sets of tamborine gals, one younger and one older. The girls have to be in good standing to be one of the dancers. While the praise band was practicing some of our people were playing table games, playing outside or preparing food, or just laughing a lot! Great day!

On the way back to the hotel we stopped for ice cream. It is Marshall's favorite thing to do! Then a new grocery store was found! Quite nice and more purchasing for the casa.

In Mexican style we ate dinner late. Los Pencas is a really upscale restaurant. While having dinner Joanna shared that the bakery store was really sweet and make 100 cookies for us in a beautiful basket. Doug was impressed with the people of the neighborhood watching our games as we were in their race track area. Sheryll thought the kids really liked to be tickled, chased and flipped upside down. At our delicious dinner Margret won the bet for the bill $1330-that's pecos not dollars!!! Thank you Lord for a very special, wonderful day!
JJ










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