Well our last team of the summer left this past week and I guess that means we have finally wrapped up an incredible summer of ministry. Things really slow down out here in August. A large portion of the population takes vacation and everything just seems to chill out a bit. The kids were away at the mountains for a week and got to ride horses and raved about the good food (meaning soup). We have spent the past few days just hanging out with kids. We had a couple of older kids over for dinner (when the little ones were at the mountains) and we watched a movie and hung out and talked. Haley has been bringing books and having story time with the little ones and afterwords we play cards and laugh and joke. We brought a Romanian dubbed version of the Jungle Book to the orphanage a few days ago and the kids sat transfixed for 2 hours laughing along with the movie. If anybody started talking they were quickly met with a chorus of shhhhhhhhs's. This is quite rare as even movie time is accompanied by a cacophony of small chatter and side conversations, but they had been so incredibly bored that they were determined to suck every ounce of entertainment out of the movie.
We've also spent some down time wondering through the parks and cooking fun meals and just enjoying life together. We are also really excited to head out on vacation for a couple of weeks. We will be spending 3 days in Paris, 10 days in Germany between Berlin and Frankfurt, and then stopping in Istanbul to see a friend for a day!
Much Love,
s+h
steven being a kid...
while haley takes care of them
story time with the kids
duck duck goose or banana banana pineapple or bacon bacon piggy
Mini Golf with Mark and Rebecca!
Mark is a sore loser
hair time at the orphanage with the girls
not quite enough length for pig tails
ohmmmmgeee we are like sooooo cute!
