Our next work team arrives tonight. This is a six person team from the Toronto area that will be doing some work at the Oasis care center and possibly working on the new site in Pachacamac. This is the first team to be on an “early” flight and will arrive at 10:30pm. This means that if there is no lost luggage that Jon will be able to be home as early as 1am!
We lost our electricity on Saturday night and didn’t get it back until about 4pm on Sunday. Normally, this wouldn’t be worth noting, but with the rat problems that we’ve had we have been keeping the windows shut at night. In addition to the heat, the lack of fans enabled the mosquitos to attack. Elise at one point in the middle of the night had to get up and stick her head out a window to get some fresh air and cool off a little.
Jon has been able to kill two rats with rat traps, but we’ve decided not to include a picture. This might be the thing that pushes us into getting a cat here (we’ve been wanting one since we arrived), but we want to wait until the baby comes to see how we feel.
We have had very strange weather here. Lima is a desert that typically receives less than one inch of rain per year. Two nights in a row last week we had steady rainfall from about 7pm through the night. It typically rains so light that you can’t really feel it, just hear it, but it actually rained hard enough that we needed to use windshield wipers. This morning we are being treated to an extremely unusual blue sky.
At Elise’s (and baby’s) doctor appointment last week the doctor said that the baby could come any day now!!! The due date is still march third, but we are excited (and nervous). We decided to be silly and will leave the car seat in the car from here on out and this morning I decided to take a picture with Elise’s overnight bag and our prayer quilt in the car and ready to go.
