Saturday, December 5

Kirsty and I walked down to town for our weekly exercise; it turned out to be a great day for it. We got to town in time to go to the post office and the bank and then headed to Guancascos for internet and lunch. The other girls came later because they thought one of the cleaning ladies from the school was going to clean our house today, but she called and couldn’t come. We remained at Guancascos til late afternoon; Jacki and Kirsty went to World Vision to help translate and do paperwork, Laura Beth and Mr. B. ran errands, Sarah went to hang out with Gustavo and Julia and I did a few things in town as well. My parents are coming February and wanted to make a reservation at a hotel in town, but hadn’t gotten a confirmation yet. So I had to go to the hotel and make sure the reservation was made, using Spanish, of course. I think it went pretty well and everything was understood, so (hopefully) everything is taken care of for my parents when they come to Gracias. We all headed up the mountain at different times, so I was up at the house by myself for a bit, which was nice for a few hours. We had an exciting night of conversation, popcorn with chocolate frosting, and watching movies.