Shopping, etc!

Today is a national holiday here, so we spent the day hanging out and shopping! We walked down to the mall, walked around to several stores, and then went for fast food! I had a W hopper from burger king! It was good, although the sodas are much smaller here, which if you've ever seen the movie "Supersize Me" you'll know why. Anyway, it's been a lot of fun getting to know the Venturas and hanging out with the kids! We went to a park today, which was very interesting- we had to show our passports to get in! There were security guards everywhere too, as there are all over the city. Every house here has a huge fence around it, and some even have razor wire and electric fences! They are serious about their security here!

Tomorrow is another holiday, the Day of the Children, and so to celebrate Flavia bought the kids some "Blocky"s, which are like legos. Here are some pictures we took today. We're on our way to see Batman (in English, of course...) so we'll write more later!

This is Joel, (pronounced hoel) and his Dad, Christian, and his Mom, Flavia. And down there is Pricilla, she's 6 and she's really funny. I don't think they quite know what to do with non-spanish speaking people. Last night Pricilla got out a game for Sarah to play... it involved one person reading half of a verse of scripture (in spanish) and the other person trying to say the second half from memory... yeah Sarah didn't do great at that one, but Pricilla can't really read yet so she still had an advantage. I was playing chess with Joel, which worked ok, but then he got out this game with different trivia questions, and I was having a really hard time. Although part of the reason could have been that, as I found out after about 10 minutes of struggling through it, the whole game was in PORTUGUESE! No wonder I wasn't doing great...
OK now we are all going to the MOVIES! I hope the popcorn is good here. Our tickets were only about $5 US each, or 40,000 guaranies...

We'll write more later! Tomorrow we're going to play some games with all the kids at the church, so we'll put some pictures up of all that!

PEACE!
Ted and Sarah