A Flood in our Room

When I woke up this morning, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Alina and Noah had remembered to wedge a towel between the floor and the door to outside so that no larger critters would crawl in underneath.  I just remember back to years ago when a snake slithered into our room...not a pleasant experience.  From geckos to mice to cockroaches...they can all manage their way in underneath the door, so it's best to wedge the towel in there.  I learned this trick when I lived in Mexico.

We went for breakfast this morning and we were served arroz con leche (rice with milk) with a coconut pie.  I'm not really a fan of coconut pie, so decided to give this to one of the grandecitos boys that I've known as long as I've been with Noah.  Kaylyn, like Noah, is not much of a fan of the arroz con leche, but she does eat more of it than he does.  I have let my children know through the years that they will be eating with the kids at Emmanuel so they can more appreciate what they get at home.  Alina took her breakfast and went to sit to eat with the toddlers, while Noah went to eat with the grandecitos.  After breakfast, Kaylyn, Noah and I went back to the room to get ready for church while Alina went with Michell and Sofia.  I picked up Alejandra to go to church with us and Noah ran to get Gibran and Oscar. 

After church, Alina decided to go with the toddlers, Noah headed with the grandecitos and Kaylyn went with Sofia while I went on a walk with the big girls.  We all met up at the comedor for lunch.  There is a team from Ohio here that planned on serving chicken for lunch today.  I heard the rumors about chicken all morning from the children!  The chicken had a spicier crunchy coating to it and there was also rice and cole slaw.  I think my children ate their entire bowls on their own!

In the afternoon I went on another walk with the big girls and Kaylyn came along.  It began raining and the rain was pretty strong.  When we headed to supper, it was so strong that Kaylyn was getting hit with tiny little rocks. 

After supper Alina and Noah decided to take showers.  I was tired once again, so didn't even notice when Noah finished his shower, but I did notice when he wouldn't go to bed because he kept moving around the room.  This is when we noticed that when he showered, the shower curtain wasn't tucked into the shower properly and water leaked out.  Noah likes to take long showers, so our room flooded a little.  Kaylyn's suitcase got a little wet, we saved mine just in time, and the other 2 suitcases were on the far side of the room, so no damage done there.  Noah used every spare towel we had and a couple of blankets to soak up the water.

All of this flooding was in ADDITION to us having lost power in the late afternoon.  No power.  No phone service.  And Mike (next door) came over to let us know that it would be a "long, dark night" since this most likely happened closer to Tegucigalpa and wasn't just a local outage.  We were without power all night long.  Thankfully we had flashlights and candles.