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Slept in until 830.
I needed to catch up - already.
but now I feel energized and awake so hopefully I will be feeding the babies for the rest of the week! 

So we had to get more groceries this morning - ALREADY! almost the same amount that we got the other day. I guess thats what you get when you have 6 grown men in the house! Haha.

Today we are leaving a little bit later for the Kids Club because we were two hours early yesterday - I guess we over anticipated how long it would take us to get there. We passed a man on the street who had all these clear bags of fruit and when we stopped he came on our bus and walked up and down the aisles shouting repeatedly, 'ONE BAG FOR ONE DOLLAR, ONE BAG FOR ONE DOLLAR!' (6 in each - Mandarines, Pears, Apples and Lemons) 

all of the corner stores were barred shut at all times in protection from theft.

 check out all those taxi's!!! 

the school where some of the children attended  

1130 - Kids Club! 

'Olà! Mi nombré es Cassandra, Tengo vienté tres añios!'

When we got to the kids club this afternoon, each of the children stood up and said their name and how old the were. (actually I think that was the first day, I wish I had filmed it, it was so precious, they all worked so hard to say that sentence in english for us! It was so sweet when they would fumble a few words and Robbie helped them out!)

Kenz teaching one of the boys how to say 'Can I borrow a pencil please' in English!

Steve teaching the children how to speak English I believe? 

All the children LOVED Robbie's beard and would not stop touching it! so funny! haha 

At one point we were talking about how much a taxi would cost for a ride from the orphanage to the kids club (1 hour) … $35!!! 

White American - Gringo
Asian - Chinnoh

A little boy showed up today with a crab inside a plastic bag, he bought it on the street for 20 cents on his way to the club. (This crab was not a big one, it was a small one you would find underneath a small rock on the beach)
Pet Crabs 

 his name is Daniel (the boy)

Another boy showed up to club with a baby chicken - but he gave it to Robbie to hold on to throughout club because he was too embarrassed! So Robbie put it in a woven basket in the kitchen. But don't worry the chick made an appearance during arts&crafts. The boy that brought the chicken had bought it from his school for $1.00. 

While the children were doing their homework, I went to prepare the snack and I had 3 girls following me around, so I brought them with me and had them help me to prepare snack. I had to mime what I wanted them to do and then pointed to them then pointed to the food. It was great! I spread the peanut butter on the celery and the girls helped with putting the raisins on the log. Ants on a Log! - delicious & nutritious! 

So snack time came around, and as we handed them out and all of a sudden the kids were asking Robbie all these questions and motioning towards the snack and Robbie BURST out in laughter! what the heck man?! He said that all the children did not know what celery was or if they were supposed to eat it, apparently they never eat vegetables raw! They were all so unsure of it, most were scooping off the peanut butter and raisins and eating that! Then little by little they all started to come back and ask for seconds. Then child by child, they started to venture out and take a bite of the ants on the log, even though they thought it was the grossest thing ever! Their faces were so disgusted and disappointed as they slowly chewed. But then Mackenzie made up a second batch and it all went within 30 seconds! and they were all thanking him. It was great! 

…Later on we discovered all of these pieces of celery with small bits of peanut butter and raisins on them. Hid around the stumps and walls and some children even threw pieces outside the wall of the club.

After snack we got to listen to them sing their national anthem! So Cool! 

Next, we did our bible lessons and painted some rocks for our arts and craft time! So many children knew their memory verses from the day before! We didn't have as many children as yesterday, but we still had a lot! (25). 

Don't worry the chick made an appearance! The baby chick would not stop chirping though and Robbie was getting very annoyed! So he took it in his hands and wrapped it up with his shirt; it was not cold. Robbie & Kelvin broke up some doritos and tried to feed it; it wasn't hungry. It just kept chirping. 
Then the kids tried toPAINT it. 

While the rest of the kids were painting rocks, the rest of the children were outside playing 'What Time is it Mr.Wolf', then as others joined in, we played a GIANT game of 'Octopus.' They loved it! 

I absolutely ADORE this picture! (So does Nanny!) 

At the end of the day the children came around to say goodbye with a hug and a kiss and Robbie gave out their memory verses for tomorrow.  

I also put up my hand washing posters I had made back in Canada today! Right outside of the kitchen.

When we arrived home, we had some grilled cheese, Tomato soup, Coke and Tortilla chips? Kind of weird, but oh well! it's 2 hours later now and I am so hungry full. 

This really needs to be a COKE advertisement! 

Later that evening we went swimming in a pool across the street, it was really fun! We played a lot of rubber ducky games (Throwing, diving and counting them) and some pool noodle games (Mostly using them as weapons, both swords and water guns). We had a whirlpool and tied noodles around our legs so we could float! At the very end Mackenzie and Robbie were putting the pool cover over and Robbie threw a rubber ducky really hard at Mackenzie's chest! So Mackenzie goth he ducky and wound up to throw and Robbie got so scared he turned to run away! BUT he turned too quickly and slipped! His feet flew from right underneath him and he whacked his elbow and smacked his head! I rushed over to see if he was okay and he was just laying there, laughing historically. Haha! And in the midst of it all, the rubber ducky had ended up hitting him smack-dab in the thigh and there was a huge mark. It's still really red (few hours later when I was writing this entry) Robbie is so lucky he didn't fall in the hole by the pool decks. (Yes, if you remember those big gaping holes I posted pictures of on

the first day we arrived in Quito, they do not stop on the streets. There was one in the pool hall - we don't know where it led or what it was used for, but it was weird. 

After that we just went back to our house and rested and basically all went to bed! 

Goodnight Quito!