Hola,
We hope all our followers, friends and family had an exciting and fun Christmas and we wish you all a happy and safe new year.
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| Keeping the kids busy making stockings ........... |
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| and stuffing Piñatas |
We were thinking of you all enjoying the roast dinners or the seafood platters while we were tucking into Frijoles y Arroz (Beans and Rice) on Chrissy Eve.
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| This is a photo of our actual Christmas Eve lunch - no joke, was frijoles negro, arroz y queso citijo (black beans, rice and cheese that is like a cross between cottage and parmesan). Petrina is in vegetarian heaven. Its cooked in stock so is quite flavoursome. |
Christmas Eve in Mexico is a big one (huge fireworks at the orphanage etc - see photo below) and then most of Christmas was spent as a big family, eating and playing with the kids.
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| Stuffing stockings 1am Christmas morning with the other volunteers |
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| Some of the stockings lined up in the Capilla (Chapel) ready for Christmas morning (photos below also) |
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| Not even 'Snow White', la coneja (the rabbit that is the orphanage pet) missed out on presents Christmas morning |
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| Aleesha (left) and Erin, other volunteers, opening presents on Christmas morning |
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| Petrina and Junior, dressed up as a Shepherd boy all ready for the christmas eve nativity play during ´midnight mass´ (which was actually at about 8pm, shhh, don´t tell). There are so many kids that they have their own church service at the house! |
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| ....about 2 minutes later.... |
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| Mary y Joseph (Their actual names are Maria and Jose- how cool is that?) |
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| Griselda, 17 and Angel, 12ish. Angel played the Angel in the play.............. of course. |
Love Petrina and Steve
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