Circus and visits counting down the days...

Sunday was a mellow relaxing day. We do not have visits to the Orphanage on Sundays so we got up and spent some time reading and relaxing. We had arranged a trip to the Circus for Sunday afternoon. The driver picked us up at 2:00 PM. We were dropped off about two blocks from where we were going to the circus. There was an open air market but it was way too crowded so we went to a near by park for the boys to play. We went in to find our seats around 3:00 because it was pretty windy and kind of cold. The circus was inside a big building. There was one center ring where everything happened. We had great seats, they were in the second row in the middle. When the circus began we were not sure what to expect. The opening act was a little of a surprise let's say, modesty is a little different here. There was a clown that did some tricks etc. between all the different acts. There was a couple that did some tricks on roller skates and some men that did some tricks off a trampoline. They also had an act with camels. Then a lady did some tricks with some animals. They had bears, dogs, baboons, monkeys, horses, and... They had a short half time then they had some men do some acrobatics on high bars. Then more animals tricks, Lions, Foxes, Lemers, Porcupines, Wolves, etc.... All in all the boys loved to see all the different animals and some of the clown tricks. One was where he had a bunch of glasses with water and he played a song. The adults were a bit shocked by some of the show but it was interesting. After the show was over we walked down to the McDonalds and ate dinner it was good to have some food that looked pretty much American. One more Sunday left now before we head home.


Monday morning we woke up excited to see Mariah again. We got to the Orphanage and Mariah was dressed in a yellow sweater. She looked so cute. We went outside and found our little area to sit and play. Zach sat down with her and read a little of his story. We played on the slide and let her swing and walk. I think she is really starting to get used to us now. I think she was excited to see us. The visit went well. In the afternoon we picked her up and went outside as usual. We had only been there for no more then ten minutes when Zach had an accident. Jeremiah and Zach always play in these sand boxes they have all over in their playground. They are surrounded in cement about one to one and a half feet tall. Zach was running toward the sandbox when he triped on a root sticking up out of the ground. He fell forward and his check and nose hit the edge of the cement surrounding the sandbox. We were scared to see the result. His nose started to bleed pretty bad. That of course is scary to see coming from your kids. After we looked at his face it was not as bad as it seemed. He will have a bruse on his check but all things considered we are very Thankful that nothing worse happened. We continued to play with Mariah and everything went well. She even said MaMa for the first time. It is hard to say if she really understands what she is saying but we are excited anyway!In
the afternoon between visits we decided we needed to make another trip to the grocery store. We usually walk to the grocery store just about every day. It is about a 20 minute walk one way to the store. We needed to get water and milk which is heavy to carry. So we got our backpacks and headed to the store. It started to rain on the way but not too hard, thankfully. We got all our groceries which consisted on two 5 liter bottles of water and four containers of milk. Once we separated it between the backpacks it was not too bad to carry. We made it back. Today we need to go to a different grocery store to get more water and to get some Coke Light. I think Joe and Bridget bought out the other store. It is funny to walk to the store everyday but it gives us an outing in the afternoons, which is good for us, and uses up some of the boy's energy. We are enjoying the spring weather, which is very pleasant most days.