We finished the scrapbook and wrote a few more cards (of course, there was 2 new kids at Inti this week - we hope no new ones show up on our last day).
Saturday afternoon we went to see the new Inti location in Santiago. Odeleon, a newscaster and neighborhood president, donated through his association the location, supplying a cook and paying for all utilities for 5 years. He surprised both of us with an inauguration party for us, because he felt bad it couldn't open in time.
There was no champagne, but that would have felt strange. Inti is a modest organization that has a staff that really does focus all of its efforts on the kids. The confetti and bottle of coke seemed appropriate. It felt a bit funny that a man that had done so much for Inti was throwing us a party as well as the fact that really the party should have included all of you that allowed us to buy so many things for Santiago (their furniture, all their books and games).
Here's the room that the professors will be working hard to turn into a place for kids
and here's the view
That night we took the professors out to dinner to thank them for all of their hardwork. We let them choose the place, so our good-bye dinner was Peruvian Chinese which was ironic, but actually pretty good.
On Sunday, we had another busy day that started out with getting sprayed by cement shrapnel from a close by construction site. They don't seem to close them off quite like they do in the states.
We went grocery shopping one more time for Yuliana and Mavel's family. Here's a picture of some of the groceries as well as the chairs and shelves that all of you were able to buy for them.
We spent the afternoon reading with Mavel and helping Yuliana with her English as well as jumping rope.
Here's Jackie and their Mom going head to head . . .
We stopped by our apartment to show the kids and they quickly convinced us to watch Scooby Doo with them. We gave them a photo album of our time with them and a few other gifts and they gave us each a bible. This family has been extremely gracious for everything that all of you were able to do for them. Their mom continues to call us Papi Lindo and Mama Lindo, which roughly translates to "Father and Mother Beautiful".
Then, we took them out for a good-bye dinner at Pizza Libertad where our favorite waitress gave us a Andean Chess Set. Mavel was finally able to get her Alpaca. The 3 finished their meals, helped us finish our pizza (they tried pizza for the first time), and each had fruit for desert. Kids in Peru certainly can eat.
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