The Adventures of "le Kaack"

"We're having cake tonight!" - unknown
"How would you say cake in French?  Le kaack..." - Nicole

On Monday night last week, while three of us were doing dishes, a Haitian woman working in the kitchen was helping us to find where to put the dishes.  She would point to the cupboard where something was supposed to go and we would try to figure it out.  Once we finally understood where she was pointing for each thing and put them away she would say "Bravo! Bravo!".  By the time we were finished drying all of the dishes and putting them away, she was killing herself laughing at us!

Last night we had some fun experimenting with the karaoke machine in our living room here.  The evening started out with Nicole singing on her own.  Eventually Katie, Janaya and Lindsay took their turns too with the other girls joining in when whoever had a microphone didn't know the part.  We all slowly stopped singing along and started doing other things like going on the computer or playing dutch blitz.  Lindsay ended up being the only one still singing!  (for about 25 minutes...) 

Today we had another opportunity to go to the Baptist Mission for a few hours.  We ate lunch there at a cute little restaurant, looked around in the gift shop, and bartered with the vendors lining the street.  Emma is such an amazing barter-er that she has decided to become a professional barter-er!  Some other volunteers here have a much more difficult time bringing the prices that the vendors give down.  Around noon the place started filling up with white people.  It was really really strange to see so many Caucasian people in one place.  The airports in the US are sure going to be weird.  
When we were finished at the Mission, we went to the grocery store. We picked up a bunch of junk food and then the truck we came in stalled.  Some friendly people, including the "hot" armed security guard, helped us to get it started again. 

Emma is very proud of one of her little boys who can say her name and kisses her on the cheek whenever she leaves him in the nursery.

A few of us went for a walk on Thursday, and sat on a short wall (the beginnings of a building perimeter).  While we were sitting and looking at the scenery, a phone rang a ways up the hill.  As soon as we heard it, the girl who Ashalee was sitting with cupped her hand over her ear and said "Allo?".  It was SO cute!

Sarah has had the privilege of watching one her little angels learn to crawl!

I guess that's all from us for now.  Thank you so much for all of your love and prayer.  We greatly appreciate that you read these stories and think of us!  May God bless and keep you.  See many of you very soon!!