We stopped by the bread store and got a bag full of bread loaves and took them to the kids and off we went. We take a mini van most places, as this is the only way we can get so many people moved around. We drove about 1 hour from town into the villages. We had some meetings already set up. 2 meetings were to deliver photo albums to relatives of the kids who are already in the States. This is a pretty big celebration for them as they get to see what is happening in their lives and see how they are growing.
We went from there to another village; the village we were scheduled to pick up a bunch of kids. Today is a festival holiday here and so many things are either stopped or at least postpones. This was the case with picking up the kids as well. We intended to pick up 15 and we were only able to pick up 2. This was best anyway, as we were not as prepared as we could have been to receive them, so they will be picked up on Monday.
We dropped off the kids at the care center and then went to town to rent trucks to pick up the donkeys. The girls went to see Dr. Mary and were very encouraged and we went to get donkeys. Everything here takes much longer than we are used to. It only took just a little less than an hour to drive out to get them, but then it took almost 3 hours to have them selected and then loaded onto the truck.
We drove back to the care center and dropped them off, but since the widows were not selected, we have to give them out tomorrow morning. So the donkeys are staying in the compound over night. The kids thought that was great, we’ll see what it looks like tomorrow morning.
We got back to the hotel to find out that we still did not have hot water, so we switched rooms. Unfortunately the entire hotel doesn’t have water, so I guess having only cold water was better than having no water at all.
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