17,000 Steps

   After waking and getting ready this morning, I decided to head down to the Comedor.  There was no school today and cleaning our house generally takes place on Sunday, so I thought I would walk the toddlers back to their house (the Chosa) at 6am, and sit with them for the morning.  We watched an animated Batman series as well as watching the Curious George movie.  Around 9:30am, I made a trip back to the Girls Volunteer House to fill up my water and go to the bathroom.  When I got back, Dunia let us know that we were going to take the toddlers out to the farm because 2 new horses arrived yesterday.  When we got to the horse barn, Andy was there to welcome us and tell us a little bit about the 2 new horses, that were a little malnourished and only 3 years old.  They will definitely get good care here and will be healthy soon enough!  Our time at the horse barn wasn't as long as was originally hoped, so we walked over to the greenhouse for the toddlers to see the squash and cantaloupe and corn.  With an hour left before lunch, at this point we walked all the way back to the Toddler House and spent time in the sala watching a movie.  The sun was really strong this morning, which continued through the afternoon, leaving me with a very light burn that would most likely be gone by tomorrow.

   After lunch, I went into town with Noah, John, and Nora.  Nora needed to do some grocery shopping and had never been in town before as she's always come down on teams.  I needed to get some toilet paper for our bathroom, then also decided to get some bananas, green grapes, supplies to make guacamole at some point for the cooks in the kitchen, and then a lot of Zuko for the family back home.  John offered to carry one of my bags back and Noah carried the other.  As we passed Matilda's (where we typically get the frozen chocolate covered bananas), John realized he had forgotten to get something in town.  Noah wasn't too happy because he had just bought 30 Hershey's chocolate bars (which were in his black backpack) and the sun was strong.  So I suggested that Nora and I go into Matilda's (which is air conditioned) while the boys go back into town to get what John missed.  That way the chocolate candy bars could stay in Matilda's store and not melt, and Nora could try a frozen chocolate covered banana, WIN-WIN.  When the boys got back to the store, they each bought a frozen chocolate banana and we continued our walk back to Emmanuel, stopping at Glenda's on the way back and saying "hi".  We chatted for a bit and I bought onions from her before we headed back to Emmanuel.  

   Nora and I put our groceries away and chatted for a bit before heading down to the Comedor to eat supper.  They served eggs, refried beans, ketchup (for flavoring) and tortillas.  Noah wanted to do smores with the the Small Girls House, but that was the time it started to rain.  And it rained hard for the rest of the night...so smores would have to hold off.  About 5pm, I went to my room and settled in for the night, my Fitbit said I had gotten over 17,000 steps today which makes sense with the trip way out to the horse barn and then into town.  I was beat, and the Fitbit also reported out that I was fast asleep by 6:04pm.