Monday, Oct. 2, 2006: 6:45pm

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Chris!

So, I believe I left off at Thursday. We had the partner family dinner tonight at a traditional Romanian restaurant, only the food wasn't so. We still waited two hours, so we subsisted on bread and wine for that long. I felt bad for the kids of the families we are building for; kids can't sit that long. But when we handed out the gifts to the children, their delight and smiles of excitement more than made up for everything. That was another late night. We got back to the hotel around 11:00.

Friday was ordinary.

Saturday was our last day on the site. It was a half-day. In the morning, we gave Christi a baby tub filled with baby gifts we had bought for him and his wife. She is due with their son any day now. Such a cute couple. He is 38, she is 25. We also gave gifts to the kids at the work site. So many toys and goodies left over from what we brought for the partner families. However, not all the kids were there, so everything was unevenly distributed (even the candy). The others eventually showed up, so it was a tough situation. I also gave away the rest of the candy I brought. Hershey's mostly.

Yeah, my shoes and work pants are staying behind. They just became too gross, especially being around all that dust and mud and gross water. So I left them in a plastic bag for the garbage. I donated another long-sleeve blue shirt. Don't need it; wore it for four days straight. It was all gross and grimy!

That's it from Romania. I'll blog about our last three days when I return stateside! See you soon.