So, that's it! That was the last day of work. Tomorrow we get up for breakfast at 6:45am and spend the rest of the day travelling home. There may be a final blog and there may not. That depends on how eventful the trip home is. For those of you in Scotland, come to Whitburn Pentcostal church on Sunday @11:15 to meet the team and hear first hand what's been going on.(See link at the bottom of the blog)
But before I go, here are the last few bits of news from the team:
Today, we emptied the warehouse completely. Every item has been distributed to a deserving home except some items that ended up in a mans garage. This man will distribute them over the coming months amongst villages in the mountains where there are no roads and where the population is nearly all older people as the youngsters move out to find work and never return to look after their parents and grandparents.
After the last deliveries,we split up again. Some of us went back to the town we visited last year. This was for four reasons. (Oh-oh sounds like one of Andrews' sermons. He always says there's three points but a fourth always seems to creep in there!)
1: Stevie woke up in the middle of the night and thought "I never screwed that last nut onto the playground equipment! Without it, the whole thing could come falling down!" So we went and bought another nut and bolt (cause the original one was stripped) and fitted it at the school.
2: We had to take back the van we had borrowed/hired as the tax expired today. We took it to the car wash (they are very thorough here - they washed the inside AND the outside!) and made sure there was a bit more petrol in it than when we picked it up.
3: We had more forced shopping to do - L_ kept that down the absolute minimum in case we got carried away
4: P_'s plants in her apartment needed watering (I suspect that was the real reason for the long trip!)
The rest of the team stayed here and played in the pool! It was another hot one and poor Beetroot Bob has burnt himself to a crisp in the sun. I don't think he remembered to put on sun block until he was already barbecued! At dinner tonight, we turned the lights off to bask in the glow! It's a real shame, because he really is quite badly burnt. The local cure here is to put yoghurt on the burnt bits (now there's a Blog I dare ya moment never to be captured on film!)but Bobby was afraid to do it in case Chuck tried to eat him in the middle of the night! Besides, Chuck, being the compassionate best friend that he is, said that there wasn't enough yoghurt in the dairy to cover Bobby!
Poor Mark has been very tired these last few days. He has tried coffee (and boy is that strong here!), he has tried Red Bull and Monster caffeine drinks and still his eyes keep closing every time we look at him. I can understand that when the synchronised scotsmen are doing their show (see previous blog) but even at the dinner table he almost lands in his potato salad. The other evening I came in to find he had fallen asleep on his laptop and when he woke up his forehead had QWERTYUIOP printed across it in mirror writing!
Monica has been with us again today. Did I mention that she is really pretty? I think Mark has noticed. In fact we are all suprised at how well they have been getting on. First the trips to the pool hall, then the swim in the pool and then suddenly at the dinner table tonight they excused themselves for a few minutes and returned to the table with a baby! Chuck says "the Lord made the world in seven days but Mark was almost as fast!" Here's the family pic - The mother in law is on the left, then L_, Mark, Monica and the baby. We asked Mark what the baby's name was and he said something that sounded a bit rude and we realised he had made a similar mistake to my mountain bike episode (see a previous blog entry), every one laughed and it turned out the baby's name was Joanna (although they don't pronounce the J here it's a Y). I can't tell you what the rude word he said was though.
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