Home, Home on the Range!!

We have just about reached the end of three weeks, and boy, have we been busy these past couple days! We finally got to finish the ceiling at the OM base and is looking mighty good, but Siegfried wired the lights wrong so its not quite done yet *sigh*. The last bit of work we got to do at the base was to begin painting the house we were staying in. I believe this is the first time we truly got frustrated and in a bad mood while working, because painting white walls white tends to do that to you, especially when you find out later that you are only supposed to put a small coat of paint on at a time, not the five or six that we ended up doing. Paint down here is apparently a lil different than up in the States. The walls soak it up like a dang sponge. And its horrible. But a good lunch and a lil fellowship, along with some prayer, got us back into the groove, and we ended up getting our rooms completely done and the hallway and kitchen ceilings done.




We found out Wednesday evening that we were going to be accompanying the girls to an event called "Proyecto(Project) America" an international community service outreach. We wound up traveling for about four hours to Florida, a city outside of Montevideo, which is really only an hour away. Buses stop EVERWHERE here, impossible to get anywhere quickly. The whole point of PA was to go out in the city to various places, like a high school, prison, poor neighborhoods, and get some work done. We chose to help with the gardening team, so the extent of our Friday invloved machetes and twenty foot bamboo stalks. It was a little too fun to be considered work. Saturday was incredibly slow, we just ended up running errands for all the projects, taking sand, sheet-metal, or lumber on a big truck around town, with hour breaks in between, not fun. Last day was mostly spent cleaning up the high school and getting all the equipment packed up. We decided that we were the only two people who went to this event who did not know how to speak Spanish, which was kind of a bummer because the main speaker sounded like he had some good things to say and was pretty passionate about what we were doin, but we just had no idea what he was sayin and he was too loud for the girls to be able to translate for us. All in all it was a good weekend, lots of work got done, and we had the pleasure of sleepin on foam pads, sweatshirts as pillows, and no showers for four days.





Now that the weekend is over, we have finally been taken to the farm where we are going to be stayin for the remainder of our time down here. Today Roy and Cathy took us on a tour of the place, and we love it. They guessed it was about 40 acres, but it seems to be a lot bigger than that, with lemons, peaches, nectarines, and plums everywhere you look. We look forward to start work here, sounds like we are gonna be pruning A LOT of trees in the next couple weeks, should be a blast.

Thats all for now, we'll see you guys in a jiff