Ezekial

Yesterday was a typical day around here.  It rained in the morning, then breakfast & school.  Around 4:30 we headed up to the International School.  Andrew has played basketball there a few times and has went golfing with the school's basketball coach.  It's close to Quality, so we rode bodas there.  Since we are mzungos they assume we are with the school and we can walk right in. The school is beautiful.  They have a huge pool that has a large 3 foot kid pool, which the kids got to swim in for about 20 minutes before they closed.  After, we watched Andrew play basketball and then walked on up the hill to the children's learning center where there were several different play areas.  The kids had a blast and it was nice to be up on this huge hill, overlooking the city, away from all the smog.  (Fresh Kentucky air would be #6 on things that I miss.)

Panorama of the play area.

 

After playing we walked to Quality to buy groceries.  One of the girls that plays basketball enjoys cooking and coming over Friday to cook authentic African food for the families here.  Since it was dark and we had a lot of groceries, we called Abby, a taxi driver who is always parked at the end of our street, to take us home from Quality. 

Today we went with the other families to the kids orphanage.  Today is Independence Day, so when we arrived the bigger kids were all sitting on a blanket, silently watching the Independence Day parade.

 

 

When we sat down, they all turned and just starred at us.  We tried singing 'Twinkle Twinkle' but that just made the littler ones cry.  Since not much activity was happening inside, we headed outside with our crew to play... shortly after a few other kids followed.  

The kids eventually warmed up and began running around and talking to "Danny".  I turned around and saw Andrew handing his rubber band bracelet Chapel had made him to a little boy, Ezekial.  There's always one that pulls on your heartstrings and it was evident to me why Ezekial pulled on Andrews.  Ezekial has some kind of disability, not sure what, but he's unable to walk independently.  He was as happy as could be and seemed to enjoy the extra attention Andrew was giving him.

 

Seeing Ezekial makes us miss our little guy so much more!  It also makes us so appreciative of all the things we have available to help Trust...equipment, therapies, doctors, medicines, ect.

 

After getting some pictures of Jude, Judah and Uriah under the Oasis sign, we walked back down the dirt road to The Lodge to have lunch. 

  

Tomorrow could be a big day for us!  We heard on Wednesday that our passport is ready!  Since today was a holiday everything was closed. The plan is to go tomorrow morning to the passport office.  We do not have our written ruling, so we have been told it will be difficult to get it.  

Please pray that it goes as smoothly and quickly as possible.  It would be GREAT if we found out our written ruling was ready tomorrow morning, which would make getting the passport much easier.