Thursday, June 16, 2011

Day 4 - Last workday photos

   
This is Jessie, one of our Colorado partner team members, having a great time with kids at the park.

The team with the little Ecuadorians actually won this futbol game. The next photo is the child stealing the ball from David!

Kimberly and her new best friends.

Morgan and her new best friend.

Brian won the heart of this little girl pretty fast.

Going to the park required a short walk down the street from the church where we were working. Note the buildings and streets common to this village outside of Quito.

David and Richard take a break while the afternoon VBS kids wait on the stairwell to go in for arts & crafts.

The ladies (including Jill!) worked just as hard as the guys, hauling buckets of dirt and taking their turns with the pick-axes to dig the trench.

David swinging his pick-ax.

This is Lyle with the pastor of the Puengasi Christian Church, where we worked every day building the daycare facility. Pastor worked alongside us every day, and even though he spoke no English, made friends with everyone in the group. His wife and daughters helped with VBS and made us a homemade lunch (which was delicious!) every day!

The pastor's wife and daycare teachers made ornament keepsakes for every team member to take home as a "thank you" for our work this week.

Even though we are done working, we will be posting more pics from week. Tonight we are headed to a special dinner and a tour of Old Town Quito. Tomorrow we will be ziplining through the cloud forest!