August 8th - A Soccer Tournament

We woke up this morning and went to eat breakfast with the little girls. We had granola cereal, Mott´s applesauce (expired, but only by a few months) and a bubble gum vitamin. At 9am we headed to the gym to help the volunteer team with the soccer activities for the day. The little and medium girls went through the drills and tournament games from 9am until noon.

There was a clown, face painting, a water balloon toss, a bean bag toss, and even people who made animals/swords/hats out of those long hotdog-type balloons! While I watched the beginnings of the water balloon toss, I accidentally stepped on an ENORMOUS ant hill. There must´ve been hundreds on my shoes and socks, before they finally reached my leg and started biting. I will definitely be watching my step from here on out! Andrés and I spent all morning filling water balloons to replenish the ones that had broken (and the ones that the girls were consistently stealing & breaking).

We served the girls lunch: hotdogs, beans & chips. We had a small break before the little and medium boys came from 1pm until 4pm. For this group, they needed someone to do that face-painting, so I volunteered. When the activities were over, we served the boys the same foods for supper. Jen, Andrés & I definitely got sunburned!!!

After all of the soccer activities, Jen & I decided to retire to the house for the evening, while Andrés went to play some chess with the older boys. He was very excited that many of them knew how to play chess! When he got back, we chatted for a while before calling it a night.