Living Hope

This morning, breakfast at the hotel, we had some cheese/egg thing, sausage, beans with peppers and onions :) and fried potatoes.  Fruit etc.   The coffee here is great.  We got to Living Hope, set up and started.  When we finally figured out how to make things work - our schedule was about 45 mins per group.  Today we pampered 60 women.  They were so grateful - and all the gals from our team really embraced the moment.  Rene even had a lady fall asleep.  It is hot today, the hottest we've seen so far.  We had a couple of us that toke care of the ladies children while they were pampered.  We finished early today, they had lunch for us.  Brought in green pickle buckets - rice, mashed bananas and a beef (I think) soup that they poured over the rice.  They had nice plates - but no utensils!  We had to eat with our fingers and there is a trick to that, of which I think I have mastered.  We also sat on the floor, with nothing to drink.   We are planning on doing 2 groups tomorrow and 7 groups on Friday.  I think we may have sandwiches for that day.  Because we got done early - we are going to check out the pool and just get caught up on our reading and writing. 

Today the construction crew - Pastor, Jerry, Bob, Taylor and Karen were at House of Hope.  Haven't talked with them yet but I think they may be ready for a rest.

Marrie and Betsy worked on the medical side of things at Living Hope.  We left them there as there was a long line of women needing attention.  They toke a boda (dirt bike) back to the hotel.