Weekend Wrap-Up, Week 4

Monday, Monday...Today's Monday is a little different for us.  Avery will fly out of Bogota today with our team leader & Colombian pastor to Santa Marta, Colombia.  They will attend the Colombian Presbytery General Assembly.

I Googled Santa Marta, & this was one of the first images I found.  Santa Marta is located on the Pacific Coast of Colombia.  The girls & I will be back here in Bogota :(.  We will have press on with school, Spanish classes, & I will attend an informational meeting to enroll them in school this fall.

But on to the weekend.........

Isabella attended her first middle school event Friday night.  The English speaking church here has a middle school group that will meet twice a month.  She enjoyed it, although there were only boys here age, no girls.  Maybe some girls will come later though.  The girls in the group were all 2-4 years younger than she is.  The apartment where they meet is about 105 blocks south of us....translation, a taxi ride, bus ride, & walk about 10 blocks.  So it took us a solid hour to get there. We left home at 4:30 & arrived back home a little before 9pm.  

Saturday, basically I had a lazy day.  By lazy, I mean I did lots of laundry, cleaned out drawers of papers, did correspondence, & got caught up on a few other things.  I love Saturdays where I can catch up on things that fall behind during my week.  I was able to Skype with my parents & "see them".  Brook has a friend here & she was invited to spend the night at her house.  This is the 2nd time in 9 months Brook has done this, so it was fun for her.  

Sunday we went to church, and then came home for the day.  Avery found his new favorite store here, so he went to spend Christmas money while the girls & I stayed home.  I wasn't feeling 100% Saturday night or Sunday, so when I was in bed at 7pm (6pm Central time) Sunday night, I asked Isabella to bring me some hot tea.  

Sweet presentation was more than I asked for....she also brought honey, milk, & sugar.

This did the trick & helped me feel much better.

Brook spends her spare time fixing hair & she did this yesterday without even looking & I thought it looked pretty good.  This is a braid bun on top of her head.

Brook closed out the night with Facetime with her cousin Eden.  I was asleep before they hung up, but I know they had fun.

Happy Monday!