Oh, All The Places I'll Go: Friday: Las Gringas Don't Want to Leave...

today i woke up early to feed the kids breakfast at the Guarderia. this is at about 7am. they're usually served some kind of oatmeal/porridge and a kind of breakfast cookie. a lot of the kids that go to Kinder come to the daycare for breakfast before they head to school. they're all so adorable :)

we ate breakfast and went back to the Guarderia. we had a good number of flowers and trees to plant! a lot of the older boys came to help, and they kinda sorta took over a little bit so there wasn't a bunch of stuff to do outside...i did plant my guanabana tree though! i can't wait to visit it when i go back! at the end of the day, everything was planted and the finished product of the yard looked soooo awesome!

for our last day inside the Guarderia, we played with the kids, made Muddy Buddies with the kids, blew up balloons, and handed out the finished tie dye tshirts to the kids. so there were a ton of little kiddies running all around the place with balloons wearing tie dye tshirts! it was so precious, i could have packed all of them up and brought them home. and it was also really awesome to step back and look at everything we accomplished there: outside, the mural, all the smiling faces :)

we also brought a ton of water balloons with us so once all the younger kids were gone we made a ton and had two crazyyyy water balloon fights with the older kids. round one: drenched, it was awesome with the wonderful weather and the kids were hilarious. round two: i did not even get my hand on one balloon because these kids went nuts and i was scared of going near the bucket of balloons. insane. awesome.

we had a wonderful dinner on our last night made by Maria Elena and we gave gifts to her, Pastor Anthony, Ryan, and the two women that helpful Maria Elena cook for us the whole week. it was so nice :) then we presented them with a homemade cake that we cooked in the kitchen at Guarderia (the stores in the village even had Betty Crocker cake mix and frosting!). except the oven was a tiny bit broken at would shut off if it was turned up above 250. do not be alarmed, it was fine...it just took about 3 hours to bake. pretty funny.

it was sad to think we were leaving the next day, very bittersweet. but the last thing i wrote in my journal that night was: "I'm excited to go home and tell people about this beautiful place." and thats what i'm doing now, yay! :)