Friday: Last day!

 Oh man was this day so fun, the last day is always the biggest, fun, and busiest, and the most emotional day for some of us.

We started out with a 8:30 breakfast market with all the leftover food we bought, it was cereal, yogurt drinks, bread with peanut butter, and granola bars. Quite yummy and creative if you ask me.

Once we finished breakfast we headed to the orphanage for our morning activities, this day we did music/games and crafts. 

For crafts we started out with scratch art and the kids loved that, they would scratch the peice of art and then they would make it for someone special and give it to them as a present to say thank you. Then we went to chalk art and now half the patio courtyard is covered in cute chalk drawings, mostly of butterflies, people and flags.

For Music we repeated a couple of things because Julie was out of Idea's, we started out with another round of An Austrian went yodeling but much faster since the kids knew how to play. We then went to Hozanna again with funny dance moves, and finally ended on playing Shoe Lookie which we didn't end up finishing before the  kids got bored.

After activities we went to work, we dropped two off at the Adolescent's to check the water heater and make sure it was working, some went back to the hotel because of how long the day before was and the were achy and the rest of us went to Unrau.

At Unrau in the morning before lunch we were able to touch up the places that needed black and white oil paint on it, we were able to almost finish one room with one coat on it and the other room half done. 

Then we went to Golondrina's for lunch which was super fun, we had chicken tacos with rice and himacha and that was so delicious, and then we hung out a little bit before the kids went to school and did photos while some people talked about the April trip.

Then we all went back to Unrau to finish the rooms, which we did in two hours and then we said goodbye to the boys and went to the hotel to pack up since we left so early in the morning.

Then we had an amazing surprise, some of the Leonell kids came to the hotel to give us cards and paintings Marco painted for each family. It was so heartwarming, the kids made each person a special card with all their names signed on it and with a diffrent painting that Marco had painted. It was so nice to see the kids from that house one last time before we left.

Once the kids had left we started to pack again and take showers after the pool and clean up.

Now we headed to Matriz for our final party before we say goodbye and leave, we obviously started out with the piñata for the kids, we had one star piñata for the smaller kids and a ninja turtle one for the older kids. The younger kids broke the star piñata pretty fast, but I think it's cause Pablo wanted them to feel strong.

But the ninja turtle took some hard waking, going through all the older kids and breaking a stick in the process, plus some of the Mission trip people Francisco finally ripped it open and let the kids get the candy. It was super fun to watch, and the kids were nice enough to share with the adults it was so cute.

We then went straight to dinner and had pizza and pasta with a side of orchada, let me tell you those kids sure do like katsup on everything, including their salad for the little ones. Mexico's an interesting place to try new food.

After dinner we played a balloon game where you would tie a balloon to your ankle with string and you would try and pop other people's balloon's by stepping on them and the last person or two people if it took too long got small prizes.

That game didn't last long, but it was still super fun. We also gave out Maracas that Lensie brought and partied in the dark for a second with the light up Maracas.

We then said our goodbyes, they started out with a circle and the team being inside of it and praying for us and what we did while we were hear. Then we broke apart and said our goodbyes or Hasta luegos if you weren't ready to say by yet. We had some laughs and tears and some silence too, it's all of the process and needed to be done. Because the kids did have to go to bed and it was late we made them quick and headed to the car and back to the hotel.

Then we went to bed and woke up at 2:00 in the morning to leave for the airport.

Overall it was an amazing trip and I can't wait to come back in April.