Wednesday, March 18, 2015

March 17, 2015

March 17th….Leanna’s Birthday!  We started the day with a skype to Leanna to sing Happy Birthday.  She was enjoying some crepes the Leah made for her birthday.  Happy Birthday Leanna!  We spent the day in Santa Anna with Cesar and Eliza.  They wanted to have us over for lunch but they skyped in the morning that their water had been shutoff and they could not cook.  We responded that we could go out for lunch and they said that was fine.  The AC  on the car had stopped working again about three days ago so we stopped by the garage which was right beside the road we were traveling on and made an appointment for them to recheck it  Monday morning.  It is a shame we will not have it for Saturday, we are taking as many people as we can in our car to the Saturday meeting that Greg Nance (Rachel’s father) is giving on the family.  We got to Cesar and Eliza’s at 11:30 and visited in their home and talked about ideas for the work in Juayua.  At 1:00 we went to the food court in the mall and after that we went to the DMV to see about getting our driver’s licenses for here and registering the car for another year.  They said we could not register the car until April because that was the month it was due and our  US licenses are good here for 90 days so we got all the information about what we would need to get the licenses and decided to wait to get everything at the same time in April since Eliza an Abby were waiting in the car and there were several people in line.  Then we went to Santa Anna centro which is what they call downtown. I thought it would be lots of store but it was mostly just street vendors so we walked around some and looked at the old buildings.  Then we went to Mister Donut to meet up with a couple of other brothers who also live in Santa Anna.  Then we went back to Cesar’s house and had Flan that he had made.  We stopped by the Super Selectos in Ciudad Real and got a few groceries.  It is funny how you can always find some things in each one that you don’t see in the others.  By the time we left there it was 7:00 and completely dark.  That made the hour long trip home seem unusually long because we do not really like to be out at night and the roads are so curvy and there are always people walking along beside the road without a flashlight so they are very hard to see.  I actually saw one guy riding his bike in the dark with no lights at all.  Fortunately, he was on the other side of the road from us but it sure seemed dangerous to me.  Anyway, we made it home ok.  We skyped with Christina and Dan who were keeping baby Charlotte at Caleb and Della’s house while Caleb, Della, Leanna and Tyler went to a concert for Leanna’s birthday.  Dan’s birthday is today so we wished him a happy one a day early.


Mall at Santa Ana


Government Building in Santa Ana


Church that we visited in the Square.
 

Though this interesting....Back of the church was not white like the front.  I think there must be a spiritual lesson here....is what we have on the outside, the same in every aspect of our lives?


Inside the church. 


Just a few pigeons.


Handcrafted well...always reminds me of the women at the well with Jesus.

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