So we've renamed our teams the Xtreme Team (UFG / UTEC) and the Redeem Team (UEES / Matias) and we're having fun with that. Way better than blue team and red team. And the Xtreme team (Joe, KP, Marijke, Jenna and I) went to have a fun hang-out afternoon yesterday, which was the first time having a scheduled hang-out with just our staff and students. It was good, cause we've been talking and praying for a while now about spending more time getting to know our student leaders, and we're starting to do it more.

Another sweet thing is that we now have a second traveling American friend with us. Ryan Thomas graduated with a Civil Engineering degree from Cal Poly in '07 and Kristen and I know him from Campus Crusade there. He's here for a week or so and staying at the guys house, like Dave. They're having a fun time telling each other about travel experiences and recommending places to go and see.

Anyways, as Ryan, the Xtreme Team, a few students, and our two staff were riding in our Crusade van yesterday, he was talking to the staff and said he'd like to go to the military museum sometime. So 15 minutes later, we show up at the military museum, and we're like "what the heck is going on?" cause the plan we voted on was to go the Parque de la Familia. Haha, but this is so characteristic of our experience with our UFG / UTEC staff here and I guess just the culture in general, so we just rolled with it like we've learned to do so many times before. Then after this we went back up to La Puerta del Diablo and had our best views yet from the lookout point there because the weather has finally cleared up and we're getting some sun. I took these pics up there.