4th of July

Yesterday was really fun. We had a 4th of July party for all the people from our mission here in town. The highlight was the hamburgers. Beef is really expensive here and poor quality, so serving up 1/3 pound hamburgers was more meat than most people eat in a week. The boys had a good time - Elijah cried when the water balloons ran out, cried when the sparklers ran out and cried when we told him he couldn't have anymore homemade ice cream. Caleb cried when he tried to hold his sparkler from the wrong end.

It was a nice end to a long, hard week. I had kinda hit a wall in the whole culture acclimation process and was grouchy and hating every mosquito and lizard and spider that was taking over my house. We had taken over supply buying for a family on vacation, so Brant and I spent all week running all over town looking for the right brand, size and color of toothbrushes! Without Wal-Mart, shopping is a bit challenging here to say the least, much less trying to shop for someone else and hope you found the right type of canned green beans or bought enough shampoo.