What’s 80 metres high, spins, and costs $2.50 per person? La Estrella de Puebla – the new ferris wheel in the city of Puebla!
After our friends Tina and Tiffany tried it and survived (and recommended it), we decided to take a day off and try it for ourselves. It was great! Here’s a quick video, in case you can’t make it yourself:
Hannah and Nathanael have been hard at their schoolwork for a week and a half. But tomorrow will be my first day of the year teaching science!
It’s going to be a big day, so I got everything ready tonight that they’ll be needing for all their experiments and projects for the day. No chemistry tomorrow, so I don’t think anything will get blown up (though some holes may be drilled) (and we might possibly play with fire).
What a great day yesterday! 26 people were baptized from the two Sendero de Vida churches in Ixtapaluca. Take the time (less than 3 minutes) to watch the video below and praise the Lord with us!
What a day! Wow!
Today the two Sendero de Vida churches in Ixtapaluca got together and – had a baptismal service!
I’ll try to get some video and pictures up later. But let’s just say it was a truly unbelievable day. 26 people were baptized from the two churches! And – the stories behind each one of those lives – it’s SO incredible to see what God is doing here! It takes your breath away! (No, it wasn’t just the cold water in the pool – although that takes your breath away too!)
And guess what? Hannah was baptized! What a JOY to hear Hannah give her testimony and obey the Lord by being baptized! And our friend MartÃn and I had the privilege of baptizing her!
After we got home, a rain and hail storm hit. So we spent some of the afternoon cleaning up a bit of flooding in our kitchen. I think it’s starting to dry out!
In spite of it all, what a great day! Thanks be to God for His goodness and mercy!
(Psalm 103:8-13)
Back in April we went with our friends the O’Briens to Kidzania in Mexico City. Since some of you have been curious about the place, I put together a few video clips to give you an idea what it’s like. First, here’s the description of the idea from the Kidzania website:
KidZania provides children and their parents a safe, unique, and very realistic educational environment that allows kids between the ages of four to twelve to do what comes naturally to them: role-playing by mimicking traditionally adult activities. As in the real world, children perform “jobs” and are either paid for their work (as a fireman, doctor, police officer, journalist, shopkeeper, etc.) or pay to shop or to be entertained. The indoor theme park is a city built to scale for children, complete with buildings, paved streets, vehicles, a functioning economy, and recognizable destinations in the form of “establishments” sponsored and branded by leading multi-national and local brands.
Once again I had some trouble with the video, and so it mostly has no sound. Which means that the software I use is so old it’s time to move on. But rather than re-do the entire thing (and make you wait a few more weeks!) I’m posting it as-is.
If you don’t like silence, put on your own music while you watch. 😉
Yes, we’ve been working on getting our visas for 1 year, 6 months and 21 days (but who’s counting?). And as of today, out of the four Mexican visas we need for our family, we now have – ONE!
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All it took was a drive through Mexico City and then Toluca, inquiring of the guard, waiting in line in the sun, talking to the official, signing in in the correct tent, getting in line, talking to the lady at the computer, waiting in another line, talking to the official, signing in in the building, waiting in another line, watching lots of other people with more complicated things to do come and go, talking to someone to explain why I was there, waiting some more, explaining again, waiting, and then finally talking to the person who had my visa (and all I really had to do was sign to say I had it and leave). Oh, and then the drive home.
So as of this afternoon we’ve already started the ball rolling so that the rest of the family can get their visas. No, we’re not ones to sit around for two weeks when there’s something else we can do. Hopefully the process won’t take another 568 days… but due to some complexities (which I won’t trouble you with until the time comes) it may be a while until – well, we’ll just wait and see. Why try to guess? I never would have guessed the first step was going to take so long!
But it’s always nice to see a little progress, isn’t it?