The past several weeks have been extremely busy, but my heart is full because of all the new friends we have made. This little old man posed for a picture. I told him that I like his goatee and he just smiled so big.
We also ate at many new places. This cafeteria had the biggest pan of rice I have ever seen. Benjamin thought it was really cool (but then he wouldn't eat any of it)
We had some friends from America come and visit for a week. We had a great time! They got to experience many things in our city including some tea drinking. You are supposed to sip it, but the guy in the back drank each cup in one "sip" so they kept refilling it. It was hilarious because after about 5 cups, he just started pouring sweat. The people at the shop thought it was funny to see him drink it so fast.
Typical Benjamin trying to be apart of every statue we see :)
This was another of our friends that came to visit. The little girls call her "The Catcher" because she loved to chase them around.
This picture I took for proof when Lauren is 21 and will tell me that she was not spoiled. This is the epitome of being spoiled. We are eating dinner, she is sitting in Ayi's lap playing a game on the phone, while Ayi is feeding her her food! THAT is spoiled rotten! Normally, we would not allow this, but it had been a hard week for little bit so we let it slide this time....she was loving every second of it :)
We went to visit the oldest Temple in the area. It is no longer a temple, but a museum with tons of really cool artifacts. They also had many talented people that worked there making arts and crafts things that you could buy.
We also visited a "working" temple. It was very eye opening. It broke my heart to be there.
The heat and humidity is very high now. We have had one air conditioner (in the girls' room) that has been broken for 3 weeks now and all the other bedrooms we leaking water into our downstairs neighbor's apartment. The guy that cam to fix them scared me to death. We live on the 9th floor and he just tied a rope to our balcony and then to himself and scaled the wall like Spider-Man. He assured me that the rope would hold him if he fell, but I was not so sure. He fixed all of the air conditioners so now we can sleep better at night :)
Katherine had her first piano recital. She was very excited!
She did an excellent job. She is just beginning, but I think she has found her "thing" Piano really fits her personality well and she is good and following the instructions of her teacher and practicing. I love seeing the kids try new things until they find that one thing that they are good at and passionate about. No two are alike :)
We had another fun day playing with the kids at the orphanage. Regan and Benjamin have a way with these kids. They have such compassionate hearts and there is always "a kid" that will take to them. Praying that each one finds a forever home.
This little guy was a cutie. He loved everyone!
This little girl stole everyone's heart, but she only smiled for Regan. Praying especially for her to get adopted quickly and get the medical help that she needs.
