Restoration Ranch

It's a bright, but cloudy day here in Santo Domingo. Hard to imagine that 48 hours ago the wind was howling and the rain was coming INTO the house. Yesterday was a great day with our two girls that we sponsor at the orphanage here in town. They looked beautiful and they are both growing up. Rosita is the baby and she's 16 years old now. We took them to church with us and then on to shopping for school shoes and then out to lunch. To make the day even more special I took them to YogenFruz afterwards. We don't have YogenFruz in the US, but we sure are missing out by not having it!

I forgot to take pictures of the girls yesterday. We were just enjoying the 'being' that we forgot the 'doing'. I'll try to remember the next time. We had a little trouble finding them shoes because both of the girls have these tiny little feet and hands. In fact, we asked a man working at the store to bring us a shoe in Rosita's size, and he told us that she'd have to go to the little girl department. I said she's 16. "She may be, but she's got little girl feet" he responded good-naturedly. We finally found something for each of the girls and stood in a line that reached 'forever'. Every check out was like that. As we stood in line we realized that everyone had done pretty much what we did: wait until the last day before buying the needed school items.

Our builder out at the Ranch called yesterday and is concerned with the amount of water in the septic tank. Danny and I think it is just an accumulation of the huge amounts of water that fell over the weekend during our tropical storm. We're headed out today to take a look. You can pray that if it is anything other than that, and we need to know about it, that the Lord would show us.