Jackpot!

Okay, I apologize for the lazy post last time! I'll try and spice it up a bit to make you think its very exotic over here. So Tuesday we unloaded boxes. 19 of them, each is 50 pounds. That is a whole lot of supplies. We brought birthday presents, Christmas presents, blankets, pajamas, school supplies, backpacks, new clothes, etc. It is truly amazing to me how we got everything here and just how many people are willing to donate to these kids without knowing them. They are amazing and are being so blessed through the goodwill of complete strangers. Without getting too sappy, it really is touching how much STUFF we had to bring to them.

After that we ate at the best pizza joint in Birlad. Alonas. Mmmmmmmmm. We went back to the hotel and watched a little bit of the Michael Jackson funeral (enough to see him being compared to MLK Jr...... hmmmm....) and then we watched a Chucky movie. Yes, you read that right, Chucky. In English. With Romanian subtitles. But our dear sweet Heather had the remote and kept freaking out and flipping rapidly back and forth between that and a cell phone commercial. So it was like cell phone, knife, cell phone, freaky doll, cell phone, decapitation, cell phone, rolling head, cell phone, blood. We were alternating between laughing and screaming about as fast as she was pushing buttons.

After a good sleep (and 3, yes 3 middle of the night phone calls from Comcast) we woke up and got ready for the first day of camp. We have some sweet shirts that say the theme of the camp, which is Curaj! (It means courage. With less vowel patterns.) And the kids looked so cute in them! We rotated between a theatre station and two craft stations. They had a blast and it was SO good to see them again. They are getting so old!

We at lunch at Happy Time (mmmmmmmm) with the Bridge to Success teens and had 2 of them come back from college in Iasi to see us. We hung out for a while and talked music (MJ and Rhianna are personal favorites) and learned the moonwalk in the middle of the restaurant from Claudiu.

The rest of the day should have a few more visits of the Special Needs orphanage and a few home visits. We're having a good time.

Love and miss you all!