S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y

Me thinks my little band from Amite Baptist (pronounced here "ah-mi-tay") is tired. Our last group took their jungle flight, and the rest worked at the new orphanage site on construction. Lots of hauling dirt and bags of cement and such. Got a lot of aching backs and feet. But aching backs and feet from serving the Lord are GOOD.

We came back to the guesthouse to begin washing clothes and packing. Tonight we're staying here: no going out to eat. We'll eat pizza and have our de-briefing.

So far only one of us has "Montezuma's revenge", and that would be Gracie. She woke up in the middle of the night sick and has stayed in bed most of the day. She's up and showered now and seems to be perked up. Her thirteenth birthday is tomorrow. We had a party planned for her back in Denham, but the delay with the trip has cancelled that. So her birthday will be spent on the road between Shell and Quito, and hopefully she'll feel well enough to enjoy it.

Yesterday's Vacation Bible School was great. The pastor was so appreciative of everything, saying it was the "biggest Bible school" they've ever had.

We'll be leaving tomorrow morning early, stopping to hike some waterfalls, walking around Old Towne in Quito (some of the buildings were built in the 1500's), going to a marketplace, and then crashing at the Quito guesthouse. We'll leave Monday morning from the guesthouse around 4:30 am.

I'll post more to this blog once we get home, but I don't think there will be any time to do anymore until then. Thanks again for reading and commenting and praying!