A Sabbath Day

July 26^th – Saturday

                Today began in a lazy fashion. After I got up and took a shower Arielle asked me to do a lice treatment on her because her head was really itching. She blames me because I made the beds yesterday, and every time we make the beds we have a problem. The nice thing is we were able to use the stuff Jamin sent us so there is no grease hair involved. While doing this we worked on uploading pictures and talked to Mom on Skype.

                After getting all the pictures uploaded and the blog posted, it was a lengthy process due to the volume of pictures. We headed inside and had brunch and chatted with everyone else. Lilia read the blog to the youth and they all noticed my misspelling of their names… I have been spelling them phonetically using the English alphabet and well they are supposed to be spelled using the Spanish alphabet.

                As is the case following any large birthday party there was a pile of gifts to be opened.

                After opening the gifts we went into the church for devotions. It was rather warm in the church. After devotions we were told it was nap time for the next hour or two. We didn’t need to be told twice! After are nap we went out and everyone was hunkered down to survive the heat. Eventually Arielle and I went to the ladies house and played a variety of games with Martha and Citlaly (formally SicklaLee). Arielle and I had been discussing making grass whistles before we were invited over so we had grass with us and started making whistles. Well we then showed them how, but then they showed us how they whistle. I’m telling you I have never seen so many different ways to whistle! Arielle and I picked one form that we thought we could figure out and worked on it, I’m happy to announce I can do a decent job with that whistle now. The rest of the afternoon was spent in heat avoiding activities.

                While we were serving up dinner Xochitl (formally Suchee) asked if we would like to go on a walk. We said YES! We had a nice relaxing walk, there was a monsoon coming in so it had cooled off and was pleasant. This time we went right out of the compound and saw what was that way. When we got back we helped with dinner clean up.

                There was a ton of lightning, almost continues. So Arielle and I sat and watched it for a while. But it wasn’t long before Martha and Citlaly came over and indicated they wanted to give us piggy back rides. After going back and forth we gave in and got on their backs. After they gave us a ride it was of course our turn to give them a ride. Which led to races, and eventually, to chicken fighting on the cement instead of in a pool. It was fun, except for the chicken fighting, and we switched back and forth on who was carrying someone. Near the end Humana came out and Arielle and I started carrying her because it was safer and she is a lot lighter.

 

                We then called it a night and fell asleep to the bright flashes of lightning, the rolls of thunder and the pounding of the rain.