Grocery Shopping for Bob

It rained (poured) all night long, and with a metal roof/ceiling, it can get pretty loud.  Alina and I both woke up several times during the night.  My morning routine wasn't any different this morning aside from the fact that it took the entire morning to load just the pictures for the last 2 days of blogs, so I wasn't able to enter any blogs this morning like I generally try to.

When we left for the Toddler House, Alina told me that she saw a live tarantula in a 5-gallon bucket at the medium girls house.  Guess they had a visitor during the night.  We headed to the Toddler House and did the normal routine there too, cutting vegetables, watching the toddlers in the 'sala' while the teen moms did a morning devotion together, served breakfast, washed dishes, and then headed to the chosa.  A few children (Nicol, Jeremias and Alejandra) decided to start calling me 'Mami'.  They are such cute little kiddos!  We watched the movie Frozen for the ump-teenth time...I think Alina might have it memorized in Spanish!

After the movie was finished, I headed to the dining area of the Toddler House with Ana to help her prepare for the math portion of her college entrance exam, which will take place in October.  She had a review for this exam, so we went over about 25 problems.  While we were going over the math, Alina walked with the Toddlers to play at the playground in front of the orphanage.  On the way back from their walk, Alina bought 2 big bottles of Mirinda (a type of orange soda) and Sprite.

After lunch, we headed into Guaimaca with a bunch of volunteers to do our last grocery shopping for our stay here.  Bob had emailed me a list of things he'd like to have, which we added to our own list.  We came back with 2 very heavy backpacks and an additional plastic grocery bag full of items that will be used between now and next Wednesday when we leave.

After unpacking groceries, we headed back to the Toddler House to serve supper, give baths, and say goodbye to Claire (a volunteer from Ireland) who was leaving for home tomorrow.  She gave suckers to each of the toddlers before leaving the house for the night.

Since it was Wednesday, we had to finish up early so that we could get to church by 4:15pm.  There we met my friend Lori from New York who was here last year with her husband and 3 children.  They just came in today.  Alina wanted to sit with them, while I sat with Deisy.  The California pastor, Frank, (who was originally from Mexico) spoke.  I have mentioned him in the past couple of years' posts because he speaks in an accent that is so familiar and "like home" to me...that it's just a really nice way to enjoy the sermon.  I am still getting used to the Honduran accent and some words that are different than their Mexican counterparts (you know, how those of us in Wisconsin tend to say 'bubbler' while other states say 'fountain'?).

When we came back to our room, I quickly typed up the 2 days of blogs of the pictures that were loaded this morning, and then Alina and I began watching Despicable Me 2 on Netflix.  The internet was working pretty well, which is a rarity.  About half-way through the movie, Doris called from Tegucigalpa.  We chatted quite a bit and we've now changed our plans to leave Orphanage Emmanuel a day early so that we can spend an entire day in Tegucigalpa where Doris is...and spend it with her!