the project complete: June 14-16

We finished the project and had a tasty Pachamanca to celebrate. It served about 45 people who included all the volunteers from Ollantaytambo and Casady, the Manco Inca School children and adults, the carpenters, their families and few dogs.The kids sanded the playground and when it was partially finished, we saw how happy the children were. We had a great sense of satisfaction for our hard work. We were very happy, but when we went to the Internet the news about David filled our hearts with sadness. We were so sorry and sad about David that we concentrated in communicating with Casady and Jared in China.



hey parents!

thursday, friday, and today we have all been working hard on finishing up our project.
thursday was pretty relaxed after work, just a switch of hotels and catch up on rest.
friday we worked hard and after we all attended joaquin´s daughters birthday party. then, the group minus rosie, louisa, and grayson went to finish up our ceramics and then showered and went out dancing. it was an eventful day and very tiring but such a blast!

today (saturday) was our final work day on the project. we saw our "pata´s" for the last time and finally assembled our playground equipment. it was such a miracle to actually see all our hard work come to some sort of closure. however, tomorrow is the real closure with the finishing touches and construction and picture taking.

we are all doing well and pretty healthy, and just can´t believe that the trip is almost over.
knowing that tomorrow is our actual last day of the project then we return to lives as tourist over the land of peru is unbelievable.
we miss you and love you all.
please pray for the Childs family
--mackenzie, nina, and kendall