Blanket

Tim, Alison and I noticed that when the girls get TV time they sit on this old, ripped, dirty blanket, or they take the blankets from their bed and lay then on the dusty, dirty floor. So the three of us decided that we wanted to get them a nice, big, comfortable blanket for them. A few days ago in the market we found the perfect one! (its shown below) We wanted to suprise them so we planned on laying it out infront of the TV so when they came in it would just be there. Well, there are a few girls that will skip dinner or have their dinner brought to them so they can sneak in a few extra minutes of TV. Kicking them out was difficult! We finally got them out and shut the door. Then the power went out! (which it does about twice a day here for a couple hours at a time) So we didn't know if you should wait since the girls couldn't watch TV anyway, we got lanterns and decided we should still give it to them since they were all outside the doors trying ot get in wondering what we were doing. We layed the blanket out and then let them in. They were so suprised! It was so cute! They all squeezed onto the blanket, they were so excited! We were happy knowing that we got them something useful and that they really enjoy. We also told them thay this blanket can't go outside, and that Ramon the dog is not allowed to nap on it!

We have recently seen some neat animals around! Yesterday during lunch monkeys came!! They were huge!! They were in the neighbors hard looking for food. Of course my battery was charging, so I didn't get pictures, but I think they'll be back! A bat also flew onto our porch and fell asleep in between two chairs!

The Hindi girls also had a party at school, they got all dressed up and looked absolutely beautiful! We do not see them in their nice clothes very often, or ever! So it was great to see them excited about the party and looking so stunning!

Mine and Alison's new clothes came back from the tailor! The outfits are called "Salwars" The top shirt, pants, and scarf. We each got an outfit with the tight pants and one with the baggy pants. The pants have been a little hard to get used to, very different from jeans!
The girls were VERY excited to see us in our Salwars, they said we could now be half Indian! :-)