More working

It has been a while since I posted, sorry. It's too easy to not think about it and just go to sleep heh. Alright so since I left off, we have been working on the Prayer House still. Yesterday was rocking because we bursted some work down and removed the wax from the tables and sanded them and stained them and got the first coat of urethane on. The reason it's so awesome is because they are a very huge part of what you see when you walk in and now they are very good looking. Jacob is still making the greatest jokes in the world and keeping it serious but yet so humorous and up beat and encouraging. About 4 days ago I helped cut some areas of paint on the wall because it was a little messy, but it turned out I was given the wrong paint color. We thought we had to repaint the whole wall a different color because we didn't have the old paint color, but we found it and saved ourselves a whole ton of time. We got this humongous espresso machine and will put it in the kitchen once the urethane dries on th counters (which are looking great).

So the whole time we are working, people are coming in and out of the prayer room which requires them to walk all up in our work space but it is all good. They are always happy and ready to pray so you never feel like getting mad at them. Mom organized this whole storeroom which was probably as huge a difference as painting the walls white to brown and everyone thanks her greatly.

Yesterday we went on this boat ride in Retiro (the park by their house) and then we came to the prayer center. But the boat ride was awesome. We paddled into the middle and Blake and I used our sweet action muscles to do circles by padding one way on his side and the opposite way on my side and it was hilarious. After that we felt cool because we navigated our way like a mile or more (probably more) to the square from Retiro.

The food here isn't incredibly different, but it is. There is a lot of pizzerias that are actually pretty good deals; usually 2€ (euros) a slice, and I get full off of 2 of them so it's pretty equiv to the U.S. We had the famous chocolate de churros (which I have quite the time pronouncing: "cho-ko-lah-tay day choo-dose") and they were awesome! It's like the cinnamon sugar churros except without cinnamon and sugar and you dip them in melted thick dark chocolate (which I drank afterwards... Man it is so thick and strong... Yuck! But I did it anyway... I mean I had to.) and it is so yummy.

We have been having so much fun here, don't you doubt it for a second. Arnold, our bOrn-German but yet Spanish and English-speaking friend has been a blessing for us younger guys because he's more in our age range and likes to make funny jokes with us as we work. Our Vilhauer boy humor actually is quite present here a the center, which is awesome for us.

On a random note, my triceps are sore from rubbing wax off of tables. It was worth it though because it's a job where you can see the change being made as you push all your strength onto the table for up to 60 seconds at a time.


Last night we bought some goods from the supermercado and it was way sweet down there. There was some type of fish guts and octopus there. K we gotta go unload a car! Arnold is driving, bye!