15 dias de vacacciones

We are right in the middle of the two week "winter vacation" that the kiddos around here have off from school.  We also have a team here during these two weeks, so we have been able to do some fun activities with the kids that they wouldn't normally get to do during school days.  

This past Thursday we took 20 kids from Los Guido, along with 8 adults/team members, lots of peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches, brownies, bananas, balls of all types, and a first aid kit to a local park.  Los Guido is surrounded by beautiful green mountains, but the kids don't get out of their community very often, so this was a real treat for them.  We only had one bloody knee (glad we had the first aid kit!) and a few kids complain that they didn't like peanut butter, but all in all, it was a really fun day!  It was such a treat to get to enjoy the kids and their energy and joy in a different setting.  Below are some pictures from our day together:

See-sawing it up

Team member Sunshine and some of the girls

Sweet Jefferson and me

Fabian, team member Caleb and my lovely intern Bekah

Two regular kiddos Wayner and Jordany

Jose giving a "talk" to our kids

Team member Ben is enjoying himself

Captured this when Eliza grabbed my hand while we were sitting together.  Sweet girl. 

 This next week we are going to do some baking and decorating cookies with the kids, art, a visit to the Children's museum, and TBD on Friday.  I am looking forward to all of these extra curricular activities and am blessed by the awesome team members we have with us these two weeks from Hanford, CA and Oregon.  We couldn't do it without them!

And here are some fun pics with my fellow SI staffers:

Jose and me in a photo that is indicative of our friendship and work partnership :)

"Mug shots" we took on the 4th of July, "Free like a Boss."  Thought up by our interns, not quite sure where that came from but I went along with it.  :)

L to R Cailah (my roomie), interns Rebekah, Tyler, me, and Chelsea enjoying 4th of July colored flan.  I wanted to make something patriotic and they didn't have instant pudding at the store I went to so flan is what we had to go with.  Turned out ok.