Plans For Next Trip

After our more than wonderful Guatemalan trip, I think we're all ready to go back. The plans are in the works for next Summer. The director would like bumper pads for the toddler beds and twin size sheets for the special needs children. She also said they could use some pack-n-plays for the kids who have seizures. We are going to do our best to accommodate them. We're also planning a fun outing for the kids who are old enough to go. We hope to take the kids to the Guatemala City Zoo next summer. We got a price to rent a bus and driver and the director loved the idea.
I'm going to make a couple of bumper pad sets to match the measurements we took of the beds while we were there. I'll be sending those down soon and making sure they fit before we get some volunteer seamstresses moving on this project.
We'll be finalizing our plans for next Summer's trip in early Spring. I'll post the details here. If you would like to take part, just let me know.

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We Are Here and All Is Well!

Our flight was uneventful and all of our luggage made it! How wonderful! We made our visit to the shop with the outdoor play equipment shortly after we got to the hotel. Talk about fun! It was such a great time deciding what to buy. We finally decided on a large piece of play equipment (large for our price range and the cost for that one piece was about $1500.00). Everything costs about twice as much here simply because it's shipped from the US so shipping fees are added and then import taxes are added on top of that. We got a little play house ($700.00). Each side of the house is a different theme. One side is a school house, one is a little garage/gas station, one is a market and the back has a soccer goal and basketball goal. We, of course had to get an adjustable basketball goal (Mark wouldn't have let us leave without one). We purchased some little foot powered ride on motorcycles, a pedal tractor, a couple of rocking horses. All of that is supposed to be delivered at 10:00 today (latina time). That means certainly not before 10:00 but any time after 10:00. We're going to be at the hogar at 10:00 to receive it whenever it does arrive.
Next we headed to a Wal Mart type store to pick up some baby things. We got an ExerSaucer, a floor musical Gym, a bouncy seat, six large cans of formula and thirty baby dolls. Those items cost a whopping $400.00. Our money certainly didn't go as far as I had hoped but we have such a nice amount of things to give. We'll be loading up the van with our "Wal Mart" purchases along with our 7 large suitcases crammed absolutely full of stuff and heading off in a few hours. I promise we'll take pictures and I'll post later.