Sara and I had been craving Pollo Camparo... A chicken restaurant that is a chain and all over Guatemala, so we stopped in Antiqua on the way back for that. Sara and I also wanted to get some clay flower pots, soil and plants for the patio here at the office. Domingo was very patient with us as we shopped and bought a van load of plants etc. We arrived at the office at about 3 and Virginia was here waiting to work. I thought she wasn't coming in. We unpacked the car and I worked with her for about 2 hours. I had thought I would be able to relax from now on out but several things happened to kill that thought. I was going to pack up bags to go back to the states when I discovered that all the jewelry we had bought from Chonita's was missing. Neither Sara nor I remembered taking it out of the van... so in panic we called Domingo to look in the van for it. All I could thing of was that he had taken it out of the van when we bought the plants and had left it by the side of the road. This was $2500.00 worth of jewelry so quite a concern. Domingo was still in town, in fact buying the typewriters so he looked and sure enough it was still in the van, hidden behind a seat. This was a relief.

Mean while we had another crisis. Angie from Casa Guatemala (the orphanage in the jungle we support) and I were going to get together on Thursday. I called her and she said she had been trying to get a hold of me the past several days. She had been sending me e-mails. She said the water had been rising on the Rio Dulce because of all the rain and the orphanage was flooded. My heart sank...this was a reminder of several years ago when the orphanage was destroyed by an earth quake. She said the generator wasn't working, the sewer pipes had broken and they were in a state of emergency. Of course they needed money quickly.

I e-mailed the Sharing the Dream board. Did some work on our finances and called Vikki in the states to transfer some money. I worked all evening and was able to come up with $10,000.00. Most of our other projects that I had discussed in the previous e-mails would have to wait a few months.

Hopefully all the people who sell products for Sharing the Dream can see that what they are doing is so.....important. Click here to learn more about the flooding.

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