a few of the kiddos!!

This is John Mark's buddy Daniel. His Dad works at the hotel and he comes to play just about every day. The public school teachers have been on strike again (due to lack of rec'g their paychecks) so he along with the other kids in public school, have been out of school for a week thus far. John Mark has taught him some English words and he has taught John Mark some Spanish, they play for hours without speaking the same language, but I mean come on...they didnt have to...look at Daniel's shirt...John Mark figured he was his best friend forever when he saw that elephant on his shirt!!! (for those of you that dont know John Mark's bedroom is all in Alabama and Thad/Pablo is a HUGE AL fan!)

What do kids do without a TV, their toys, when they've read all their books (some twice), and their parents are visiting with some other boring adults?? They put on a play!! If any of my cousins or sister are reading this you will so appreciate our event yesterday! Yesterday Brian and Sarah (missionaries living here in Trujillo with their 4 kids) came over after morning worship and ate lunch and the kids swam. But when a storm rolled in and disturbed the swimming time...no worries!! We had all the costumes from our Bible skits at the school in our apartment (the adults were down at the hotel visiting after eating lunch at the hotel). The kids let us know to prepare our seats (and a mattress we were told) for a play. So we did, and they came down and performed David and Goliath and Eglon and Ehud (sp??) They were HYSTERICAL!! They had rehearsed and all got involved from oldest to youngest (Andrew who is 4). We adults laughed and laughed!!

'Goliath' (big brother JOnathan with little brother Andrew on his shoulders) fell backward onto the mattress (being spotted by Nadine and Stephanie) with hit with the rock.

Eglon and Ehud - John Mark's new favorite toy (his wooden machete his papa bought him covered in foil for the play) was a bit too long to disappear into the 'fat' (aka bundled up costumes), but we didnt care! We were thrilled to see them recounting their Bible stories!!

the crew taking their bow (Quite proud of themselves!!)!!