Stormy Days

Woo! It's been a crazy week. Cinco de mayo. The kids having no school for almost a week (sometimes they just don't have school randomly). Mother's Day celebrations at school.

It's been pretty cold lately. stormy and cloudy. Angela even turned on the heater one night! Both risa and I got colds once the weather turned. Kind of funny considering it's nothing compared to washington weather:) The night of Cinco de Mayo there was a thunder storm and amazingly beautiful lightning. It was the craziest lightning I've ever seen. Blue and purple flashes. We sat out with the kids (on our sewer tank lol) and watched the lightnting for a super long time until it got cold and dark and angela called us come inside to eat some hot avena and bread. It rained that day too! The first rain since we've been here. There kids were outside dancing in the rain, along with risa and I:)
After that, we ran out of gas for our house which meants no hot water and not being able to use our stove to cook any food. After about two days of having no gas, and the gas man saying he was coming but then not, we then ran out of water. So we were roughing it even more than just our usual of not having electricity, which risa and I don't really even notice any more. Well except for not having a refrigerator....
Yesterday was also an epic day. We packed more kids and pregnant women in our van than ever before....to take them to the orphanage for a mother's day celebration. I was driving our aerostar and seriously thought we werent going to make it up all the hills. especially the dirt road/hill up to the orphanage. But we made it. Had a mexican potluck with all the moms from our church. played with all their little kiddies. Then angela asked us a "huge" favor of taking some of the moms of our kids back to El Zorillo. So we pilled in the car. not as packed this time. After dropping the moms and their kids of, we went up to Viki's house so she could be with her dad, when are car started making kinda of strange noises and then just died. It did that three times so we just pulled over to the side of the road. Put more water in it (it leaks it's coolant so were constatly refilling it), and then walked viki up to her house, waited for the car to cool down, because we thought it was just over heating. But then we started it again after it had been cooling and it died again almost immidiately after we started it. Luckily as we were like "great what do we do now?" -with no cell phones, in a sketchy town, no gas station, no where near anyone we know we saw Mr. Sunshine (aka Jonathon - we named him that because he's constantly smiling and very ethusiastically happy....) came walking down the road where we broke down. Marisa was walking towards him and shouted, "Ayuda me!" As she tripped and ate it :)
Luckily Mr. Sunshine (who knew nothing about cars) helped us out, and found a guy from our church who lived near by. We came to the conclusion that it was out of gas. Marisa and I always wonder about the gas situation. The gas gauge is broken, always saying its full... Since we've been here we've only witnessed gas being put into it once. Luckily this guy gave us a little bit of gasoine he had in the back of his car, and two other guys from our church then asscorted us to a store where you can buy gallons of gasoline and helped us but a couple in. At first they were trying to syphon the gas with a little tube they had to put it into our tank, which was working very well/very slowly. When we discovered that we had a funnel in the car and Risa told Felix - "you had a drink of gasoline for nothing!". Thank goodness for the help.

On friday the kids had a big mother's day celebration at school. They've been practicing dances that angela has been teaching all the kids at school (btw she can bust some serious moves), and they performed them and had special food and gifts for the mothers. All our kids were all dressed up and cute looking - doing little traditional mexican dances! Our kids are amazing!
They seriously make me laugh harder than anything. ohh I can't even imagine leaving them...
Last night all the kids went to go visit they're mothers so our house was empty, it was so strange! we're like "something is missing!!!" Risa and I decided to star gaze for awhile, even though the moon was shinning a little brightly to be able to see them very well.
Today we went to Calvary Chapel in Ensenada again. Its a pretty awesome place, with fun people. Risa is sure the pastor has ADD. lol he's a pretty cool old guy.

Now we're off to take the micro back to our peaceful village. well, actually to el zorillo and then drive to our town. Blanca tunred nine yesterday (but wasnt with us) so we're making a cake and getting a little celebration ready today! wohoo
Love you and miss you all!
-Sarah