Wow, so I can't believe that it's already Friday! This week has flown by! The rest of our evening on Thursday was spent hanging out with the home kids. Spending time with them this week has been such a blessing. Each of their personalities are so diffferent and they are the greatest group of kids ever. Every night we have devotions together then we play...and play hard until bedtime! Hanging out with them after dinner and devos is always full of tons of giggles, plenty of piggy back rides, soccer, frisbee, and tickle wars! Sure beats sitting on facebook or watching tv :)
On Friday we took a trip to Antigua, a really neat city in Guatemala! We started the day off with chapel with the school kids, then we headed out to Antigua. Rather than eating our normal breakfast of toast, we had brunch at a sweet restaurant (named "The Fork" en espanol, of course) way on top of a mountain overlooking not one, not two, but THREE volcanoes! The view was breathtaking and the food was delicious! Then we ventured to the city for some shopping...a lot of shopping. We learned that Antigua has a central park, and that was our meeting place. Then off we went to the artisan market to spend the sum of our cash, praise the Lord that they took our American dollars! After buying enough souvenirs to fill Jamie's massive army bag, we took a little break for some Guatemalan McDonalds. Now when you think of McDonalds, you're probably imagining a small fast food place with slow service and a lack of seating...but oh no, not in Guatemala. They took the saying 'go big or go home' to heart. This place had a courtyard, waiters, a cafe just for the coffee drinks, and excellent service. Way to go Antigua McDonalds! We were able to explore the city some and Kaiser took some really great pictures. What a day, we hopped into the van and traveled back to La Senda, full tummies, empty wallets, an assortment of souvenirs and all!
We had dinner with the home kids and got to spend more time with them just having a blast! Since it was Friday we got to have movie night! We watching "Change of Plans" a heartwarming production brought to you by Walmart...what a winner ;) ! Then we hugged the kiddos goodnight, and spent some time with our team just being so silly! Tonight is going to be great, you'll hear all about it later!!
With love from Guatemala,
Lindsey
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