i’m back

Did you miss me?
We moved past our car troubles and got our rear ends to Mexico!
And I loved it!

Rancho De Sus Ninos is an orphanage just across the Tecate boarder.
Our church has been supporting it through mission trips for years and years and years.
However, this was our first time to the ranch.

This is the school bus that picked us up in San Diego and drove us across the boarder to the ranch.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been on a school bus!

We had lots of men with construction experience and lots of tools.

Below is the bunk house where we all stayed.
Girls bunk is on the far right.
The rest were full of men…snoring men.

My bunk.
Like I could go to Mexico without multiple water bottles and a box of Kleenex!
 
This is where we took showers.
The blue buckets are how we took showers.
I was scared of having to take a bucket shower…but after a long day of work…the blue bucket and I became great friends. 

These guys however…not such great friends

There were multiple projects our team was working on.
These guys were building a covered patio for the new daycare building.

Nice work men!
My job was to help grout floor tile in the new hospice.
This is the wall I had to scale in order to get to it.
This wall and I become friends…we said hello every time I had to climb over it to go pee.
I drink a lot of water.

This is the hospice.
Such a beautiful building.
My prayer is that those who will call this building home find comfort and Jesus within its walls.

Beautiful kitchen with an awesome pantry

This is the courtyard that is in the middle of the building.
Room after room wrap around it.

And these…
these are the beautiful terra cotta tiles that cover the floor of the entire hospice.
Day 1: remove broken tiles and clean each tile with sponge.
Day 2: grout tiles
Day 3: grout tiles
Let’s just say I can grout some floor tiles

Meg, I’m bringing you back your hiking boots.
They are too small and injured both my big toes.
I’ve been afraid for days that my big toe nails might fall out.
I’m in a wedding in December…how gross would that be! 

I’ve got more pics of the orphanage and of our trip to Studio del Creador.
Studio del Creador is awesome so you wont want to miss that post!
However, I didn’t want to overload you with a weeks worth of pictures in one post.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving…so here is an early Happy Thanksgiving to ya!
I hope you all have a great day with full bellies!