Hola Vida Is Beautiful!

Yesterday, we worked with Kris Waskosky with her puppet show. It is a puppet show of Noah's Ark we are going to be performing for the kids in Salasaca (they are native South Americans). We spent a good part of the morning cutting papers to make into pamphlets of the Noah story to hand out to the kids. Kris and Shedd (her husband) translated them into Quichua awhile ago. Two boys/men from Mission Aviation Fellowship were helping. They got to Ecuador three days ago, and they don't have enough work to do, so they are helping us. We ran through the puppet show, which is going to be a lot of fun, but confusing because it will be performed in Quichua for the Salasacan kids. For supper last night we went to Beth Patton's house (she's a teacher at the Nate Saint Memorial School) with a bunch of other missionaries from Shell. We stayed there until 10:30 (the latest we have ever been uip since coming to Ecuador) playing Dutch Blitz and Apples to Apples.
Today, now...
We got a day off, and sleeping in was amazing!! After a breakfast of Trix cereal (pure sugar, but so good) we were off to Hola Vida, a waterfall about 45 minutes away from Shell. All nine of us were squashed in Chris's 4-Runner...quite warm. At the waterfall, we had a 20 minute hike to the waterfall in the Ecuadorian version of hiking boots...gum boots. It was a granted measure, and the scenery around the river was amazingly beautiful. After changing out basically in the open, we all went swimming, but found as soon as you got near the falls, all sight was blocked, and I swallowed a lot of water. On the way back, everyone slept...Sophia (Chris and Krisitin's 6 year old) was on my lap...a thing I thought I would never experience (having a kid on my lap without a seatbelt travelling across the worst roads you could ever possibly imagine)!
Tomorrow should be good....another day of laying low.
Thanks for all your prayers, and we are almost hitting the halfway mark (Maybe??), for all you worrying parents. Love you all!!
Sam