Busy Day

This morning the kids all set out on a field trip to the children's museum, and my mom, Haley and I set out on a field trip of our own.  We went close to the border to buy pottery for the Casa de Esperanza store.  My mom had been buying from someone in Ojojona.  A few months ago, they decided it would be more cost effective if they bought directly from the source.  The place that the pottery is made is about 3km from the Honduras/El Salvador border.  It was almost 100 degrees on the border, while here in Santa Ana it was about 75.  We were dripping in sweat the whole time we were there.  My mom had brought a few samples of things she wanted to be made.  We also chose from several other items that were in the bodega. 

While we were there, I sat Haley in a hammock, and she loved it.  She played in the hammock for a long time.  When she tired of the hammock, she and the artesian's daughter went into the house so that the whole family could meet her.  As usual Haley melted hearts and left with gift.  Someone gave her a little pink bracelet.  Haley was very well behaved and did not fuss at all the entire 2 hours we were there.  As soon as we got in the car Haley fell asleep and slept almost the whole way back to Santa Ana.

After we got back to Santa Ana, I took Haley to the house and gave her a little bit of food.  When she was finished eating, the kids wanted to play with Haley.  A few minutes into Haley's playtime, my dad came up and asked me if I wanted to go with him to look at another possible property for Matt and i to work on.  This property was very large.  I didn't know that we were going to be hiking, and I was wearing sandals.  There was a small trail through the entire property.  The land was about 30 acres.  If purchased, it would need tons of work, but lots of great things would be yielded from it.  The greatest part of this property was the natural spring.  We would never run out of water there.

We got back to the house, and my dad asked me if I wanted to take Pamela to the doctor with him.  Here they have doctor's appointments from 8-10 in the morning and 4-8 at night.  When we got there we were told we were #34 in line to see the doctor.  Fortunately, he focuses more on the people who really need to see him than the plastics.  One of the plastic women, had been there since 2 in the afternoon.  After waiting for a long time in the waiting room, The doctor spent all of one minute looking at Pamela's foot.  He told her it was looking good, and that she wouldn't have to come back for a month.  Please pray that her foot will continue to heal and that it will stop hurting.  It has been another great day.  We are sad that half of our time here is already up, but happy that we still have one more week.