A Wonderful Wednesday

Wednesday is our fun day and yesterday certainly was that.

 

Everyone enjoyed sleeping in as we had breakfast at 8:00 instead of 6:30.  We were on the bus by 9:00 and on the streets of Progresso trying to help their economy with our purchases by 10:00.  After finding the best treasures the city has to offer, we joined back together at the park for a delicious sandwich lunch.

 

After lunch, most of us went to La Fogata Restaurant and shared four goat heads.  Some of the Senior Highers are veterans at this delicacy and dove into the brains, tongue and eyeballs.  Many rookies dove in with them and found it delicious.  Taylor S even made friends with one of the goat heads.  Many others enjoyed the show but had no desire to join the feast.

 

After the goat head feast we went down the street to “Belly-to-Belly” and tested our sporting skills by riding the mechanical bull.  There were many rides – some rode as many as 5 times.  The only injuries of the day were bruised egos from being thrown by the bull in a shorter time than someone else.

 

After the bull riding we headed back to the hotel and had a great game of water polo with a 3-foot ball.  It turned into a water rugby game at times as we had pile-on scrums when teams tried to push the ball into the goal.  There is still some disagreement over which team was victorious.

 

Our evening was a standard evening with dinner (BBQ chicken, mashed potatoes and corn), meetings, worship and small group affirmations.  A family that has taken a month of vacation to spend here with World Servants helped lead our worship service.

 

Today we’re back on our work-sites.  The house-building crews will be painting walls and constructing roof trusses.  The church-site crew will go to a home where the husband had been building a roof on his house and died before being able to finish it.  We’ll remove the since-damaged roof and build a new one.  Everyone is looking forward to diving back in to working.