Thursday

 

The morning started a little earlier today. Chris R and Chris B were crazy enough to get up at 5:2am to go with Emily, one of the missionaries, on a four mile run. A group of about 60 people run together every Thursday and the Chris’s figured out quickly that there are pros and cons to running in the Dominican Republic. The pro is the amazing mountain view and cool mountain breeze. The con is that there are just a few more hills in the Dominican Republic than in Indiana!

We got to Palo Blanco before the students this morning so that we could share in devotions with the staff. Chris led us in devotions using The Story curriculum that CCW is going through right now. We sang praise songs (in Spanish and English) while we each did water color painting of creation. Some of us were more artistic than others but everyone gave it their best shot!

 

(Chris and Chris show off their artistic side during devotions this morning.)

The rest of our day went much like the day before. We threw Valentine’s Day parties for the remaining classes bringing out total to 13 classes of parties in two days. Thanks to all who donated stickers, construction paper, glitter glue, etc. The kids had a blast!

 

 

When we were cutting out the paper hearts in preparation for the kid’s crafts one evening at the team house, we said that we shouldn’t cut out brown or black because they weren’t fun colors. Lucas was insistent that one little kid may really love the color brown and insisted on cutting one brown heart. We made sure that Lucas got his own decorated brown heart today from some of the girls!

 

 

 

(Aww, isn’t he so cute?!)

 

And Randy, who openly proclaims that he is not a kid person was caught dancing and having a good time with the kids today. He claims that he has no choice with all the kids around but we all know he is enjoying them!!

 

 

(Nice moves Randy!)

While most of our team has been busy throwing parties and doing construction at Palo Blanco, Neil has been busy over at ANIJA school painting a mural.

(Didn’t Neil do any awesome job on this mural?!?!)

We left Palo Blanco a little early because we needed a little bit of time to do some shopping! So all of you wives that were left behind at home, hopefully your husband bought you a souvenir since I gave it away that we went shopping! As usual we wiped out the shelves of coffee and vanilla at the store!

Tomorrow our schedule will change a little bit as we will get to spend the morning with the kids at ANIJA. We will be eating lunch at the ARK orphanage and will have some time to spend with the kids there as well before we pack our bags to leave for our beach day on Saturday.