Today, we left after morning devotions and headed 2.5 hours east, then northwest to Huehue (pronounced way way) short for Huehuetenango. After a "potty" stop at Cuartro Caminos (several of our group members were getting sick with the runs), we continued on to Huehue. We arrived at the old Mayan ruins just outside of the city. The 80 kids from the privately owned orphanage met us there. We broke up into our teams. We played with the kids. Held the little babies. Someone from the team brought down some "bubbles" and the kids really loved that. At one point, several of the boys were rolling down the hill, like a snowball. And it was a sight to see the old adults do the same thing.
30 minutes after we got there, it was lunch time. Dominoes Pizza Delivers. Imagine 2 motorcycles full of about 50 pizzas for everyone. Picture this. A bunch of adults and kids sitting on the ground eating pizza at the old ruins. Quite a site.
After lunch, we loaded onto our vans and followed the yellow school bus back to the privately owned orphanage. Again, the same routine. We broke up into groups and lead our VBS program. This time, we had our little program in the dorm room of the 10 little girls. Some of them were shy, but the others just "loved on us".
I spent a week or so in Huehue back in 98 or so, with a team from the Nazarene church I was attending at the time. We were helping work on a parsonage. So I've climbed all over the Maya ruins and had, shall we say, the biologicals, too. We also spent a day in Antigua doing the tourist thing. Such a fascinating history with all the earthquakes.
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