An event-filled weekend. Thursday night I hosted a Bunko Night for our church. There were 16 people there which is a perfect, four-table Bunko group. Everyone had fun, prizes were handed out, we ate, laughed, and everyone went home. Well, almost everyone. As the evening waned on, we started to realized that Grace (an older, slightly special Iraqi woman) seemed to be making herself at home. Grace lives in Bludon which is a good 45 minutes from Damascus, and she really had no plans to go home. Finally, Chris (one of the elders) asked if she could spend the night, and I couldn't say no. All went well except Grace decided to take a "bano", but she couldn't really get into my tub, so when I went to go to the bathroom at 11:00, my bathroom had about 2 inches of water on it!! Luckily I have drains, so I opened those up, got the squeagy out, and drained my bathroom. My friends at church decided that keeping Grace cancelled any sins that might send me to hell. I am now carte blanche!!
On Friday night we went to Megan's to watch Sweeney Todd. It was her birthday, so we brought gifts of scanky underwear (musical hearts) and a rababa. Now we can play a duet at church (sans undies).
Yesterday, Chris (same Chris as mentioned above) invited Megan and I to go visit some castles with him and Sri-another guy from church. We had quite the adventure. Chris likes to take the road less travelled, so we were winding through small, rural villages asking for directions in our limited Arabic. We'd ask the way to Tartouse, they'd point the way, and we'd head off in the opposite direction. In one tiny village we passed the same group of guys 3 times. Two times we went down a "road" that ended at some houses with a bunch of chickens. The locals were so nice and came out to direct Chris as he reversed out. Then they wished us good luck as we (again) headed down the wrong road. We decided that we were the most excited thing to happen to that village in quite a while!!
Today, back to the grind. I caught the cold all my kids had last week, so I'm going to try not to be Miss Viola Swamp!
