Cumpleaños

Friday was my birthday! I spent a lot of time at the Casa Hogar. They made me a cake and a piñata which were great surprises. I ended up eating two lunches on Friday. One here at the rectory like normal with Fr. Greg and Fr. Tim, and a second directly afterwards with the Casa Hogar. They made me a special lunch, Luis did a lot of the cooking himself which was cool. His present to me. We had chicken and yuca and salad, I was already full from my first lunch but it was really tasty so I just kept eating. In the evening we attempted to do the piñata, but couldn't find a string to string it up from the tree. Solution: Luis climbed the tree and dumped candy down onto us from above. It was great. We ate cake and listened to the CD of american music that I made Omish months ago. "No Sleep" bumpin. So awesome. They made me a sign saying happy birthday and each of the boys signed it, definitely a keeper. I made them a CD of pictures from my time here with them and we watched that on the projector screen which was really fun. They hadn't seen hardly any of the pictures, so the trip down memory lane was great, a lot of laughs.

On Saturday the Brito's had a little party for me at their house. Gregoria made the cake which was fantastic! It had pictures on it of me and my friends, both from here and MN. I was really surprised to see that and really happy that she took the pains to get that done. Julianna and Jakeline made an absolutely ridiculous piñata that they took great pride in. After the happy birthday song was completed and I had blown out the candle (and made a wish!) everyone yelled at me to bite the cake. I was a little confused but just went with it...just to get my face smashed into the cake. Everyone knew this was coming except me. I had frosting up my nostrils. It was great. It was a fun night, with dancing and jokes as usual with the Brito family. They love to make jokes and poke fun. I'm so grateful to have such good friends here in Venezuela who went out of their way to make my birthday a good one.