Juarez, Day 3

Today started early for me, way too early. I have my alarm set for 6:45, but I woke up at 5:30 and couldn't go back to sleep. Today was a very productive day at the site. All of the walls are built, only 3 more pieces of siding need to be hung, the roof is nearing completion and a lot of the insulation is in. The electric wiring is pulled and all of the boards are painted, inside and out. Thursday should be a good day and we, hopefully, will finish so Friday will be relaxing. The people I'm here with are awesome, I wish you could all meet them. If I didn't have such a great family, I would adopt them as my own. I so look forward to my week in Juarez every year, doing what I feel God has called me to do and doing it with a very faithful, loving and fun group. It doesn't feel like work when you have so much fun. The family we are building for is so grateful and have helped everyday. I can't wait to see their faces when we had them the keys. I wish the pictures I have included here could accurately show the city and the people, but they can't. I climbed the mountain behind the house for the view. It always seems to be such a short climb from the bottom of the hill, but I soon found that it is quite a climb. Seeing as how I'm in such bad shape, I was breathing pretty hard when I got to the top. It didn't help that I was trying to eat a cookie at the same time, so my chewing was done mostly with an open mouth, which in turn caused me to loose most of my cookie. I'll know to eat my cookies before I hike again, or perhaps eat them at the top. There was a dead chicken on the path we chose, so that didn't exactly help the appetite. Juarez is a city of about 3 million people and is spread out as far as you can see. Here are a few shots from the top.
Here is one of the house we are building from up top.I told you they were crappy pictures.