Saturday at Rosa de Amor

Wonderful day at Rosa de Amor!  We were up & on the van at 9 this morning to drive to San Lucas and a visit with the children living at Rosa.  The children are very loving and gave hugs to all upon our arrival.  Then two children grabbed my hands to show me their home.  The only difficulty in the language issue is I said "Si" to alot of comments & I'm not sure if this was the right thing to say!  However, they seemed happy & delighted to take me throughout their home.  Apparently Rosa & the children moved into this new home the first of July and it is a beautiful home and beautiful grounds both out front and int he back.  Every bedroom has a bathroom and the most in each room is 6.  This is a home for 25 children; the youngest, Rosita being the 2 year old daughter of one of the children, Anna.  The oldest is 16.  The oldest boy, Max is 10.  Of course, we introduced hockey to this home as well and had good participation with some very competitive children--both boys and girls.  All had smiles on their faces.  All love having their pictures taken.  One of our team members, Ed gave his camera to Sonya who took over 600 pictures and ran down his camera battery!  However, she is definitely a good photographer!  We had a Pizza party for the children--from Dominoes compliments of one of the donations received which brought many smiles & certainly full bellies!  Cheryl (ORI) made delicious cookies that were also enjoyed by all.  After lunch, the older girls left to attend school--yes school on Saturday!  Apparently it is mandatory for children in the orphanage to attend school so these girls go on Saturday & then they do work at the orphanage all through the week.  The other children attend school through the week (except for the younger ones).  The afternoon was spent playing games with the children.  I gave out the two frisbees I had left but one was quickly aired into the next yard--over the 8 foot fence with barbed wire.  Oh well, someone has a Canada Frisbee!  We played leapfrog (had to teach the children), blob tag, some Spanish hand games--I didn't have a clue what they were saying but they wanted to know my age!  And then the girls wanted to learn how to stand on their heads and do some gymnastics.  I was lead back to the far corner of the back yard to visit "pinky" which turned out to be a dog on the property next door but we could see him through the fence.  One of the boys that took me there was a bit scared & kept saying something I couldn't understand.  The dog seemed harmless & just curled up & layed in the sun.  Lots of pictures & my hope & prayers for this home is that they will be able to stay at this location.  This family has moved at least 4 times in two years--that's a lot of moving when talking about moving 25 children!  We were lucky with the weather today in that it was sunny & nice and only rained/poured when we turned into Fraijanes where we are staying in the mission home.  Then it's been pouring & I mean pouring since--although I think we might be having a break right now.  That's it for today's events...