Sunday, sigh, our last full day here in this wonderful place. Fortunately that is not the thought on all of our minds. Today is tourist day. We get to go shopping and swimming in the ocean. First though we are going to go to the Haitians church for services. It was interesting because they were talking in creole, the Haitian/French language. Even the missionaries could not understand what they were saying. This went for two hours, the time was spent singing and preaching, in a language we could not understand. It was cool seeing how they worshiped the Lord and how different it is to what we do every week. Lunch was very good, a fried bread pocket filled with meat and cheese, I believe they were called empinadas (if any of you have a different name for the food, feel free to let me know). After lunch we went to bathe in the creek which after all the rain had just about doubled in size and speed. We decided to hike up one of the smaller creeks that fed into the big one. We hiked up three waterfalls before we decided to go back and leave the mission for shopping and ocean fun.
We loaded up the bus, boogie boards and all and headed for town. I don't believe we went to Santo Domingo, but a different town closer to our beach destination. Unfortunately, with the mission 1-2 hours away from these places, it really sucked up time quite rapidly. We left the mission around 3:00pm and got to a Wal-mart type store around 4:15pm. We were allotted 45min to do our shopping. Well, if you don't know, if you are in a large Supercenter type Wal-Mart type store, you don't know where anything is, and all the prices are foreign, and you can't understand any of the store employees or signs directing you, it takes quite a while to shop. We rushed through the store, grabbed up what we wanted, paid, grabbed some ice cream, and darted out to the bus, 10min late.
We could swim till dark, was the agreement. Well, it got dark around 6:30pm and the beach where we swam at was another 45min away, we only got half and hour to swim. Oh, well. It was defiantly worth it though. Warm water ocean as the sun is setting. Picturesque scene. After a day of being busy, (like we had any that were not), it was nice to relax on the bus on the way back to the mission. Chicken dumplings awaited us on arrival back. Yummm, Yummm, Yummm. Packing took place after playing games and such, that was unfortunate, I mean, we played until ten and then we were told to pack all of our stuff. The one night that we should go to sleep early we stay up till 11:30pm packing. I on the other hand went to bed cause my stuff was mostly packed.
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