Saturday

Today has been a clean up day and a day to finish up the closets we have been building. We are all pretty sore, tired, but very pleased with what we have accomplished here at the orphanage of Casa Hogar la Familia. We have gotten more done on this trip than on any other. There is no question but that Signal Crest has made a difference in the lives of these special children. Just being with these children and giving them our love would have been enough but the physical gifts of a van, completely repainting and providing a bed and couch for the directors´apartment, building a set of closets for all of the girls and having the frame of a second one constructed. We have been been busy painting, scraping, weeding, cutting wood, painting flowers on the wall in the girls´ dorm, doing VBS each day, having a Methodist service with communion, taking the kids to the movie, providing the kids with "Christmas in July", giving the kids 19 suitcases of clothes, plus boxes of school supplies and kitchen and medical supplies. The response this year to the la Familia orphanage has been nothing short of overwhelming.

Friday: Movie Day

We left the orphanage about 9:30 for an hour and a half drive with the kids to a nearby town to see a movie. When we got to the theater it happened to be closed, not sure why, but the owner was there and agreed to open back up for us. Gave us half price tickets and gave everyone free cokes and popped popcorn for us. Obviously a very nice guy and he said he liked to do these things for some of the local orphanages from time to time. So we had our own personnal screening of Superman.

After the movie we went next door to a pizza place, ordered 10 pizzas and ate them in nothing flat. Back to Serdan at about 5:30. The kids really enjoyed this day as they very rarely get to leave the orphanage for any sort of an event and seeing a first run movie is really a treat for them.

Everyone is pretty tired and and made it back to the hotel. Even though we did not do much today, the effects of the week are showing and we are all slowing down. Everyone continues in good health.

Movie Day