An early Sunday morning - left after 8:00 am to pick up the kids down by the river. There were only four this time but little Maria still was determined to set on my lap in the front. I don't know what kind of laws they have here about that sort of thing. They came up to meet us so I didn't have to set there in the car by myself while Scott went to find them - yeah! This is the neighborhood:
On the way to the church we passed another horse drawn cart vendor:
I don't know why these horses don't get spooked from all of the noise going on around them. Much of the time they have cardboard taped to the sides of their heads to keep them from getting spooked. This horse looks very healthy compared to most!
We dropped the kids off and tried to find our way to Mi Hogar to listen to Stephanie play. I don't know what is so difficult about finding that place but it certainly seems hard. One thing is you can't see between buildings or over top of buildings because they are all just jammed together. We finally found it - still in time for Sacrament meeting. The fun thing was Stephanie was also speaking so we got to hear her speak and play! Knowing we were late to get back and take care of the kids during Sacrament meeting in their ward we rushed out and I didn't get a picture. We did get back for most of the Sacrament meeting in the Tres Brasos Ward and couldn't see where the kids were. A wonderful sister was sitting back in the corner with them. They are such sweet kids! We took them home and hurried back to the apartment to get lunch and pack the car in the half hour we had before leaving for the San Cristobal Ward. It was easier to get there this time so we were even a little early. This is a fun group of adults who are just so excited to learn.
One woman comes and brings her little two year old and a place for her to rest:
She carries in this twin size mattress for this little girl to rest on every week. She's good there for a few minutes - maybe some day it will pay off!
This is a group of adults who really want to learn and are moving along rapidly with the directing course. What we will do when we get to the keyboard lessons with 30 people is beyond us. Normally some of the people would drop out for various reasons - so we will see.
We had 45 minutes to get from there to Oriental Stake for a 4:00 lesson. The traffic was good so we actually were only 5 minutes late. Still beat the kids there and the gate was actually unlocked. When we were getting things set up I noticed this little thing on the floor that looked like a piece of paper. It wasn't! As I reached down to pick it up it rapidly moved away from me over to some chairs. This picture doesn't show how really little it was:
It was all of two inches long! I kept trying to get a picture of it and it would quickly move to the other side of the chair leg. All in all, it was a cute little critter that my grandkids would have loved!
The kids had a fireside an hour after we got there so that cut our lesson short. A few stayed to practice. By the time we got home we had been gone for over 11 hours and I was pooped. Scott went to a meeting at the Casa and I just enjoyed being home. Yturraldes stopped by on their way home - they have their internet working now so we don't see them two or three times a day.
All is good. Homesickness just sort of comes and goes in waves. It is difficult to see the little ones growing and changing and not be there but I didn't think that was going to be easy for me. It is still hot here and hard to get in your mind that winter is never going to come...
We dropped the kids off and tried to find our way to Mi Hogar to listen to Stephanie play. I don't know what is so difficult about finding that place but it certainly seems hard. One thing is you can't see between buildings or over top of buildings because they are all just jammed together. We finally found it - still in time for Sacrament meeting. The fun thing was Stephanie was also speaking so we got to hear her speak and play! Knowing we were late to get back and take care of the kids during Sacrament meeting in their ward we rushed out and I didn't get a picture. We did get back for most of the Sacrament meeting in the Tres Brasos Ward and couldn't see where the kids were. A wonderful sister was sitting back in the corner with them. They are such sweet kids! We took them home and hurried back to the apartment to get lunch and pack the car in the half hour we had before leaving for the San Cristobal Ward. It was easier to get there this time so we were even a little early. This is a fun group of adults who are just so excited to learn.
One woman comes and brings her little two year old and a place for her to rest:
This is a group of adults who really want to learn and are moving along rapidly with the directing course. What we will do when we get to the keyboard lessons with 30 people is beyond us. Normally some of the people would drop out for various reasons - so we will see.
We had 45 minutes to get from there to Oriental Stake for a 4:00 lesson. The traffic was good so we actually were only 5 minutes late. Still beat the kids there and the gate was actually unlocked. When we were getting things set up I noticed this little thing on the floor that looked like a piece of paper. It wasn't! As I reached down to pick it up it rapidly moved away from me over to some chairs. This picture doesn't show how really little it was:
It was all of two inches long! I kept trying to get a picture of it and it would quickly move to the other side of the chair leg. All in all, it was a cute little critter that my grandkids would have loved!
The kids had a fireside an hour after we got there so that cut our lesson short. A few stayed to practice. By the time we got home we had been gone for over 11 hours and I was pooped. Scott went to a meeting at the Casa and I just enjoyed being home. Yturraldes stopped by on their way home - they have their internet working now so we don't see them two or three times a day.
All is good. Homesickness just sort of comes and goes in waves. It is difficult to see the little ones growing and changing and not be there but I didn't think that was going to be easy for me. It is still hot here and hard to get in your mind that winter is never going to come...
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