Fantastic Freaky Friday

We are all finding it a bit more difficult to answer the 5am wake-up call each morning, except for Scott G, he pops up fresh as a daisy every morning.

Work today started off slow.  We lost our cement mixer (they scheduled another job) and we have been on the hunt for a jack hammer to break apart two very large blocks of concrete and a concrete foundation that was in the way of three holes we dug.

The rain cleared out and the heat and sun returned.  We began milling around the building looking for small projects to do that needed to be done but weren't necessarily part of our immediate task of pouring concrete footings.  Some of us climbed on top of walls and knocked layers of brick down to the new building height, others worked with local workers to clear the many mounds of dirt, sand and ruble in and around the building.

We had to stop work at 10am to take a short bus ride to the Benin Embassy to sign a book in order to enter the country on Sunday for a one day trip.

We returned at 11 and the jack hammer had just arrived.  As for the cement mixer, it didn't show up until almost 4pm, an hour before our normal quitting time, but heck, nothing has been normal around here.  Concrete was busted up and removed from the final 3 holes and rebar was installed.  We were cleared to pour the final 4 holes to wrap up our week.  In order to accomplish this we needed to fill 2 holes today and 2 Saturday morning.  We ran the mixer from 4-6pm and met our goal for today.

We wrapped up the day by going out to dinner.  We went to an outdoor restaurant that specialized in pizza and pasta.  We were joined by several of the missionaries and had a fun time.