What a Bust!

Some of you will know that Friday the 30th May was our 27th Anniversary. It is the first time we have not spent the occasion with some if not all our family so it was going to be a little sad. We decided to invite all the Gringos from Gringo Hill to come for dinner to take our mind off it. Feeding 16 people was going to be a major undertaking especially with my cooking skills with gas, so I started early on in the week with the cooking and shopping. Friday came and everything was prepared but I was still feeling unwell - blaming the flu I had been trying to shake. By 3.pm though - I was throwing up so the party had to be cancelled. Mark took the prepared food to Doug and Lisa and Chad and Michele (note the Michele with one L here - important to Michele) but the other family we had invited missed out. I hope they had something they could rustle up for themselves at late notice. Anyway needless to say our Happy Anniversary never came this year - oh well I quess there will be plenty more.

We have 2 lovely American girls staying with us for the weekend. They have been in the south for 3 months and are going home to the States tomorrow but they wanted to catch up with Doug and Lisa and see something of the country before they left. D & L have been very busy with people staying so we offered to have them. (We are getting a large friendship base in the States eh? We now know people from Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and California - not bad for 2 months). I have just come back from town with them - took them to the souvenier shops.(It was good to go shopping with girls again - reminded me of shopping with Amanda of course). Mark is at a study and later we are going to our ¨welcome to Cuenca¨party. We have been told by so many people we have to be there - I quess they are scared we will pike out or forget again!

So finally after 2 weeks of being crook I am finally feeling like myself again - which is good as we start continuous auxilery pioneering this month. Our goal of having our whole family in full time service is well on the way to realization. Hopefully by September we will have caught up to our kids!

Will let you know how the party went tomorrow - hasta manaña!