Hey everyone! We're having an incredible time and had a great day Monday with the ninos from Casa Shalom. Aside from a slight challenge to our intestinal fortitude, we're all healthy and happy. Casa Shalom is a children's home about 30 mins away from where we live in Guatemala City. It houses 60 kids ranging from infant to 20 yrs old. The kids are awesome! We're doing a small work project putting up fencing and repairing a wall around their soccer/basketball court, intermixed with some jugar de futbol. Yesterday afternoon, we took 22 boys into Guate. City to shop for new shoes and clothes...it was so cool to see how excited they were to get to leave the grounds, much less get whatever clothes they wanted. Each of us had a nino or two with us and we helped them get their stuff...afterwards we went to Polla Campero (like KFC guatemalan style) and had a huge meal and played on the play structure...They acted like they were at Disneyland! It was so awesome to see their faces and feel their joy! Today we do it all again with 24 little girls...we're like Santa Clauses, there's not a thing we could be doing with them that would be more satisfying.

Thanks for your prayers and support...oh, and don't ever buy a Kia Van. Oh, my diesel.

Love, GVC Team