Today our day started super early at 4:30 am to be exact...
Why you may ask were we up so early... Well I'll tell you, today is the day the Eastminster group from Columbia left, but today is also the day of the San Juan festival here in Iquitos, San Juan Day celebrates the life of Saint John the Baptist, but down here it really means one heck of a party... We're talking like Carnival, whole streets are blocked off not by police but by the shear number of people standing around, so needless to say we felt for the airport with plenty of time to spare, plenty of time, if only we had know that the plane that was supposed to be leaving at 6:50 was delayed till 10:15... Lol such is life I guess, so we spent I good deal of the morning sitting around in the airport waiting for this groups flight to be allowed to clear security, in Peru they don't allow you to pass through security till an hour before your departure time, so we sat around for a while, but it was kind of nice to have a little extra time with this group, they were so fun :) once they finally made it through security did Pam, Ben and I finally start heading back to El Jardin
Once back here turnover started for the next group that's arriving tomorrow from Huntington, West Virginia. We had to change all the sheets, grocery shop, get enough cokes and waters for the week, do all the administrative paperwork and inventory and store all the donated items left by Eastminster, and let me tell you they donated a ton of items... Over a hundred and twenty-seven T-shirts, a hundred and fifty toothbrushes, over the counter medicines, bibles, children's toys, shoes... They have left us a great deal to inventory and distribute :) that's what I spent most of my afternoon doing... I'm happy to report we got everything we needed to get done, done. And Ben and Pam even got in their afternoon naps, I passed on a nap because I've learned that if I sleep in the afternoon it takes me forever to fall asleep for the night and that just not a good thing when your keeping the hours we are :)
Tonight Fpr dinner were having Juanes which are the traditional meal of San Juan day, it's a ball of rice with two small fried eggs of eyes, and an olive for a nose with a piece of chicken sticking out the bottom of it, then it's wrapped up in a bananas leaf, its supposed to represent the head of John the Baptist, and sounds pretty gadget to me so I'm pretty excited... Well thats really it for today :)
Stay tuned...
Location:Iquitos Peru
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