These past three weeks have been pretty eventful. I needed to renew my Visa, so off we went to spend the week in Chile. Well. The getting there was enough adventure to last the whole trip. From drunk ticket ladies passing out mid-sentence, to fighting for hours just to get what was promised to us- then losing and having to leave Charlie (Heidi's dog) at a strangers house halfway through the trip, to intense altitude sickness and motion sickness, and peeing on the side of the road in front of many strangers in the middle of the night. After 29 hours on the bus we finally made it to Chile, completely drained from the experience. After that, we decided to pay the few extra dollars and fly home. The time in Arica, Chile was restful and relaxed. We ate amazing seafood, went on many photography expeditions on the shoreline, and made friends with pelicans, giant sea lions, two dogs we named Eddie and "the sniffing butt dog" (Kind of self explanatory) and a seagull whose name escapes me right now.
I came back to find that my dog Silas had run away from the babysitter's. After a week, one of the kids that guards cars in front of El Jordan informed us that Silas came every day to our gate and waited for us. He found us again. Eventually our paths crossed and we took him home. He is now laying contently on my floor.
My mom arrived a couple weeks ago and is really enjoying her time here. She has been put to work sewing curtains and fixing toys as we prepare for classes to start up again.
We have also been busy sorting and cleaning toys, wiping walls, and exchanging old toys for the slightly newer or less used toys. I look forward to the day that classes start up again and we, I mean the kids, can start using all the new things we've put out.