Is it Mexico, or is it Home Depot.

Now the title of this blog may have you confused. But that's okay. This is Travis, signing on from Juarez, Mexico in the middle of my dorm that is filled with the other men of this trip.

So here is the 411. The 90210. The H20. Or I'll just do my top ten random things unassociated with anything important on the trip.

10. We had a grand idea of bringing a large slip n' slide to these kids. (i.e. large tarps connected together, kids covered in dish soap, scooting down a hill.) When we arrived we found the only hill was a steeply sloped hill that resembled an olympic ski jump. And the hill was also a street. We nixed that idea quickly.

9. We got stopped for a little while at the border. We drove in with 2 cars, one had all of our luggage in it. The other had just people. We were all ordered out of the vehicles. Ironically the border patrol, which looked like G.I. Joes, spent a significantly larger amount of time searching through the empty vehicle than the one that carried the belongings of 14 people.

8. One of the members of this trip is about 7'2". His name is Nick Dale. (I know, that's two first names.) In our opening meeting the lady who runs the show here told him to be prepared because the kids will point at him and climb all over him because of how tall he is. Our response was, "We point at him and climb all over him too." Nick Dale is a good man.

7. Our rooms have A/C. Praise the Lord. Of course regardless that its like a 100 every day we would have been complaint free and content had there not been. But we don't have to prove that afformentioned statement to be true... because there is A/C. On a more serious note, we are here to serve the Lord, not just "stay cool."

6. We bought coke in a liter bottle at the store today. It was good. You pay 75 cents for it, then you bring back the bottle and get another one for 45 cents. America should learn from this system.

5. Tonight at dinner our team, well not our entire team, but Steve, Brett, Tim, and Kevin (little Kevin) ate the entire kitchen out of pickled Jalepeno Peppers. It averaged out to be 4 large ones each. WHEW. Negative side to this story. We can't flush toilet paper here.

4. Stat of the Day: 45
The approximate number of basketballs we blew up today. It was mostly the girls who did it, because they are capable of emitting more hot air.

3. We have not been eating healthy on our trip. A lot of sugar, not a lot of brushing of teeth's. Last night Emily said "It feels like my teeth have hair growing on them..." When she said that I thought... Gross.

2. The kids here know Spanish. We know English. Except for Laura and Kristen whom Tim boldly claimed today are "fluent in Spanish." So we call upon them for guidance more than Ron Gardenhire calls upon R.A. Dickey and Matty Guerrer. Little Kevin knows the word Martes, which means Tuesday.

1. As I began writing this everyone was in another room playing a game called "signs." There is also a Mel Gibson movie out called "signs." But now everyone is in the room so we'll probably go to bed soon. Which means out of respect for "lights out" I'm going to shut off my computer.

In all reality things are going absolutely awesome down here. I think everyone would agree that they may even be going "better than expected." The kids are great, the ministry is great, I think we are all looking forward to a week of incredible growth. Someone will probably write something better soon.