I finally got my hair done yesterday! Definitely dark, but I kinda like it!

LITERALLY! and that wouldn't be so bad if it didn't always happen to my Walgreens.
{Seriously}

When
I received a call from my pharmacy at 10 am this morning, I laughed
when they told me that the sewers had backed up and the front of the
store had “water” everywhere. But by 11am it had been discovered that a
water main broke which is what caused inches of sewage water to flood the store and now my pharmacy. (it about that time that my laughter subsided). As
I sat in my PJs still while scrapbooking I looked at Ryan and said,
“hmmm do you think I should go in?” I did. We closed the pharmacy down
at 1:30 pm, went to Starbucks until 3:00 or so then went back so the
cleaning company
could be back in the pharmacy cleaning. As they tore up the carpet and
cleaned, I continued to sell prescriptions in the drive thru while
diverting all new Rx to other Walgreens (my customers loved that!) I
finally left about 11:30 pm. I got home and raced to the shower. I
smelled like, well, you know what! I'm not sure what will happen tomorrow but I'll be there at 7 am to find out! Seriously, thoughwhen will the drama stop?
My tried & true technicians who worked all day in

fowl smelling conditions (L to R: Alejandra, Molly, James)The carpet being torn up in th pharmacy…too bad
that Parata never got damaged!More of the inside of the pharmacy and its damageMy Supervisor Julie, in her mud boots
back in the pharmacy

Last
night we visited with Tom and Natalie Aloia {former neighbors, formerly
known as “our friends in Paris”}. They were in San Antonio for a
weekend away, staying at The La Cantera. We all decided to go see an
afternoon movie. We debated over Little Miss Sunshine and The Illusionist.
To satisfy the men, we chose The Illusionist. It stars Edward Norton,
one of our favorite actors (well, that is if we had favorite
actors….he would be one of them!) We give this movie an enourmous two
thumbs up. Natalie and I could not stop talking about it all night!
Fabulous. {Seriously} you must go see this movie! It has been a long
time since I enjoyed a movie as much!After
the movie, we went to Paesano's restaurant for dinner. This was our
first time at this restaurant (I had gone there with my mom and Shanna
at the Riverwalk location a while back but this was the North
location). It was a beautiful night and we sat outside and enjoyed a
delicious dinner. This was Ryan's first meal in almost a weekhe's
doing much better! What a wonderful evening spent with great friends. I
feel so blessed to have wonderful friends such and T&N!

Well, no one ever said that
mission work was a walk in the park. This year's trip to Mexico proved
that. The weather in Mexico was very hot and rainy everyday. Our
clinics weren't as busy this year probably because of the rain. We saw
about 80 patients on Friday and 50 or so on Saturday. The water and
humidity brought out the mosquitos in full force. Everyone was getting
eaten up all weekend. I would have felt great about the trip overall if
it wasn't for getting sick on the way home. I started not to feel good on Sunday morning as we loaded the vans up to cross the border. By the time we got Brownsville, I knew that this
was more than just the nausea of being in a crowded bus. It only got
worse. I ended up throwing up along the next 100 miles of the trip.
Finally the church bus took a detour to Corpus Christi so that Ryan
could get a rental car to drive me
home to San Antonio. Unfortunately, Ryan ended up getting sick
yesterday too. But like the wonderful husband he is, he took care of me
first. I attempted to go to work yesterday morning. I was there until
the 11am RPh showed up then I went home.Scary thing is that I don't
even remember being there.
I came home and layed on the couch without moving until 7:30pm. Finally
I got up and made some chicken soup for us to eat. That expended all my
energy and I had to go lie down again. I woke up today at 8am and got
ready for the day. I don't feel completely normal, but I'm getting
better. I'm patiently waiting for this to wear off!
Here are a few pictures from our trip:
this is the church where we ran our clinic out of on Saturday.
It was probably about 15 x 20 with no electricity and a mud floor.

this is the medical group we worked with outside
the church we worked out of on Friday.

My brain has started working en espanol. I was a bit dissappinted with
my Spanish yesterday in our clinic. I was hoping I would be able to
understand more but these Mexicans speak so fast…

We attended
a prayer service at the church we are staying at last night. It was all
in Spanish. I did feel like I could understand the majority of
it….the word of God is amazingly universal. It was a very powerful
experience.

I have successfully got two other women saying [seriously] all the time. It quite funny!

The Mexican food has been fantastic. The spider staring me down while I was showering… Not so fantastic.

Gotta run before I lose my American signal!!