Today at church we had a taco lunch to fund raise for our trip. For five dollars a hungry hungry hippo got two tacos, nachos, and a drink - not too bad! We served meals, had a silent auction, and bake sale after the 9:30 and 11:00 services. I'm not sure who would want tacos at 9:30 in the morning, but eat tacos they did! We ended up raising $1600 in four hours! We had one guy walk up and hand us $100 and didn't even want any tacos. What a giving and caring community we have!
I've started gathering things I need for the trip - work boots, work gloves, earplugs - apparently the roosters are loud in the morning so some of the group veterans suggested earplugs. I still have to get a shower bag, which is a black bag you fill with water and lay out in the sun. By the end of the day, (hopefully) you have a bag of warm water to shower under. No running water here! I'm a big fan of camping, but we've always had showers near by, so this will be a new experience for me. I think baby wipes would be a good back up plan!
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I've been really bad about logging on to blog and read blogs lately...but I'm so glad to read your updates....it sounds like things are really coming together. We had running water in the Dominican Republic buuuuuuuuuut the water was freezing, so I hope your shower bag works out. But just in case I would bring extra of the "irish shower" deoderant and baby wipes :) and the unscented kind would probably be best to deter bugs ;)
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