Fifth Day: Thursday, June 29th

Cassie -The day began at the usual time- 7(ish) am. Each of us sat down at the table for our varied breakfast of cereal, fruit, and most importantly (to me, anyway)- coffee.

We all stumbled out into the brisk temperatures, geared up in our long-sleeved shabby sweaters ready for paint and mortar, and hour by hour chipped away at the task before us. Only what I had personally considered to be maybe a few days away from putting the finishing touches on house two at Restoring Hope, our daily and even hourly progress was clearly visible. Each tile laid, each wall painted, each hole puttied... you could just feel us getting closer to being to let six new people move in to this beautiful house.

So... that's exactly what we did. Mortared, painted, puttied, and repeat. It seemed like we worked for only a few short hours when the day had come to its close.
That night we were treated to the Ocean Basket, a local seafood restaurant. And while the Ocean Basket was quite the marvelous treat, I think we can all agree that nothing anywhere here in SA holds a candle to Lois's cooking.

One more day down here in this divine place they call South Africa.