up on the roof…

That’s where Levi and I spent a good chunk of our day, scraping, cleaning, and painting the top of “layer” of the orphanage.  We had quite a time!

Se started the day in typical team fashion: breakfast in the common room of the top floor of the hotel followed by morning devotions.  Ed McCash is leading us in worship each morning, which has been awesome.  The acoustics in the room are sweet, which is a bonus…

I’m serving as the team chauffeur this week, driving the Dihatsu around town.  It’s been an adventure already!  The roads have been greatly improved out to the orphanage, but in town it’s still a madhouse.  There are no stop signs; the only way you know who has the right of way is to check out the ruts in the road.  If your side has a big rut, you give way to the oncoming traffic…

We cruised by the chicken store (50 pounds of pollo for 2000 pesos) and the hardware store (mucho pintura) to get our supplies for the day, then headed out to the orphanage.

In addition to getting most of the front of the orphanage painted, we also got to spend a lot of time with the boys today.  They’re in school for longer hours, which is a good thing, but it cuts down on our time hanging out with them.  We played some music in the gazebo during lunch, and knocked off work around the time they got out of school.  The Dominicanos then proceeded to lay a booty-whippin on the Americanos in basketball.  Didn’t we invent that game?  Oh well…

We nursed our wounds with some good Dominican cookin’ tonight at Bienvenidos.  Rice and beans, meat and tostones, empanitas and mm-mm-goodness…

I’m still wrasslin with a slow upload speed for pics, so you’ll have to take my word for it: it’s sunny and warmish, and the smiles and hugs are stupendous.