working late

This morning we hustled down to the school for the "Beautiful Indian" festival.  It was incredible to see the intricate indian costumes that were made from leaves, beans, corn husks, etc etc!!  

Can't wait til I can post pictures!  

Listening to the entire school sing the National Anthem of Honduras together was wonderful!  The Teacher Juanita told the story of the Spaniards and the Indians.  Telling the story of the warrior Lempira...all the kids cheered when she was done!  After the  - 'most beautiful indian' contest we ate...and ate....and ate!  Enchildas, tacos, homemade horchata, etc etc...we were FULL and needed NO lunch!  

the roof work is completed for now and next week will come the new ceiling I think!  It will be a very busy last week or so here in Trujillo for us.  We are shocked at how quickly the time has flown!!  It always seems to, sadly!

I am up tonight baking cupcakes 

Tomorrow morning, in the the central park in town parents and some school employees are gathering.  All the parents are making foods and taking them to the park where they will be having a 'bake sale' - although it could be something from a simple pastelito (meat pie) to a full plate of food....rice, beans, fried chicken, etc...to help raise money for some new computers for the school. With past sales they've raised enough already for a couple!  We are so thrilled to see such teamwork and ownership!!

Me I'm making cupcakes and perhaps some banana bread.  

Tomorrow Chad and Nadine arrive.  They made it to San Pedro Sula. I spoke with them as they pulled into their lodging for the night.  If you will please say a prayer for their travels tomorrow.  Pray that there are as few roadblocks as possible so that the already long road trip on the bus won't be even longer!!  If there are blocks they will get off the bus walk across the roadblock and catch another bus on the other side!! We'll be making some calls in the morning to find out with the campesinos their plans for tomorrow....but today the military kept the roads open right outside of Trujillo anyway (we've heard contrary reports for other parts of the country).   If you don't know them, Nadine lived here for a few years working with the Little Hands Big Hearts ministry and she (along with the help of the Rochester Church) continues to run a scholarship program for highschoolers here,  and Chad is an old friend of mine I met in Kenya on a mission trip 15 years ago (when we were both college students....cough cough...surely it couldn't have been FIFTEEN years!!!).