Casas Build Day One

Because I took, oh, about 700 pictures rather than working, I am staying up late to post a few of them for all you back home. That's a lot of photos to sort through. For most of them you will have to wait till someone makes the movie.

This is how the people in this part of Juarez get their drinking water.

The rest of these photos show how little we worked, and how much we got done, but mostly how little we worked. It's well documented that I was not the only one standing around all day not working. In spite of all the standing around and partying, and the eating of cookies and drinking of Mexican soft drinks, the foundation is laid, the walls and roof are framed, and the walls are blackboarded and chicken wired.

Standing around not shoveling rock

Standing around not shoveling sand

Watching concrete mix--either a new form of hypnosis, or the Casas equivalent of watching paint dry

Playing catch with buckets

Chatting

The only one working--There are laws against this in the US

Dreaming of Golden Corral

Again--the adult is the only one without a shovel in hand

[Insert blonde joke here]

Standing around not filling buckets with Agua Potable

Hut-Hut--Hike!

What old guys do--stand around...

Or sit around

Tormenting unsuspecting children

We finished work very early, enjoyed a delicious meal prepared by the family, and left the build site at 3:25, by Daniel's watch. Enjoyed dinner at Golden Corral, returned to hotel, where Venom suffered the most severe injury of the day, sacrificing half a toenail and some blood to the cause. Paramedic Mark (no mom, we didn't CALL the paramedics over a toenail, there happens to be one along on the trip) to the rescue, and all will be well, once Venom has a princess band-aid.

We will finish this story tomorrow.

Stay tuned!