We headed to church this morning around 8:00am, and Ellie decided to sit with us. She told us that she can killed 2 tarantulas that morning at the Girls Volunteer House, one was in the living room when she got up and the other was on the wall outside the house, "a little too close to the door to go in" is how she put it. I have heard that tarantulas are fairly fragile, so simply trying to sweep them where you want then is probably going to kill them. She mentioned she got the one out of the living room with a broom, but it was probably missing at least 4 legs by the time she swept it out of the house. This morning's sermon at church was given by a man from the new group that came from Clearwater, Florida. Rollie translated for him as he spoke.
After church, since it is our day off on Sundays, we did a deep cleaning of our room once again, sweeping and mopping the floor and behind and underneath all of the furniture in both our room and the bathroom. Then we headed to the kitchen to do the same. The porch outside our hotel (of 3 individual rooms and a kitchen) also got done except in front of Room #3 where there is a swarm of small bees. Their hive is somewhere inside the walls of that room and we can see the entrance (a small little tunnel) sticking out of the wall. Perhaps if it is cold enough where they are not swarming, I will get close enough to take a picture of it. This hive has been there since we were in the hotel back in 2019, so I am wondering how much of that inside wall is filled with hive (and possibly honey?).
When we were done cleaning, it was pretty much time to go to lunch, so we headed to the Comedor and then asked permission to take Gibran, Cristofer and Jeremias to the Tienda afterward. We did a videochat with Noah, so that he could chat with Gibran (his sponsored child) and just hung out. I bought each of the boys their choice of a bag of chips, a package of cookies, and a beverage from the Tienda. As we approached 3:00, Cristofer and Gibran told me that the big boys were in the gym, so we all headed over that way so that they could hang out there for the remaining hour before supper. While we were at the gym, Kaylyn got a little "bored", so I suggested that she call my mom and surprise her with a call from Honduras. Kaylyn, Jaden and I all got to speak to her and to our surprise, Alina was also there so we got to chat with her as well.
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| From front left around the table clockwise: Cristofer, Jeremias, Jaden, Gibran, Kaylyn |
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