birthday!

Its my birthday, and what a great one it has been! The nurses at work bought me a cake and surprised me with it today! It was fantastic, too! And a lot of the little kids found out it was my birthday and came up to give me kisses and hugs... TOO CUTE!

This past week at work had been really slow because school just ended here and most families were on vacation. But it is picking up again and getting back to normal.

I also had a really full, busy weekend. On Saturday, 14 volunteers, Heather, and Heather's parents (in town to visit her and then go to the beach) went to the GDL Zoo, which is about 40 minutes from our house. We got there and met up with everyone and started the walking around boring part. There were some cool animals (pictures to follow one day) but the best part was the "African" safari we went on. I GOT TO FEED A GIRAFFE! That was one of the single coolest things I've done here. It licked me and I got to pet it and feed it a carrot! It was soooooo huge and so cool! After the giraffe excitement wore off, we finished up at the zoo and a few of us went to a movie.

Our mom, Concha, had told us that her son could get us cheap tours of Tequila because he is the concierge of a hotel and they provide tours. So he got us the tickets and we showed up at his hotel early on Sunday morning. We took a charter bus an hour to Tequila. At first we stopped at Tequila Tres Mujeres to get some authentic, can't be exported tequila that is good for shots (not like mixed drinks). Then we went to the Jose Cuervo fields to see how the blue agave plant is grown and harvested to make tequila. In the middle of the field, I passed out onto our friend Andy. Everyone thought it was because I had drank too much tequila (Tres Mujeres gave us free samples) but I don't even like Tequila so I didn't try any. I don't know what was wrong with me but I felt AWFUL. We got back on the bus and got to the town of Tequila where we toured the Jose Cuervo factory and all got free margaritas. I still wasn't feeling great, so I didn't drink and I just took it really easy walking around the factory. We stopped for lunch and I ate some of it and then slept on the bus on the way home. When we got home I felt marginally better.

Monday (yesterday) I wake up feeling normal and then by last night I felt TERRIBLE again. I had a horrible pain in my stomach. I started questioning whether or not my appendix had actually been removed during my appendectomy because I felt like I had it all over again. However, after 2 hours the pain mysteriously disappeared and I feel fine now. I think it was food I ate at the Zoo because of what happened in Tequila the day after, but who knows?

This is short because I am running out of time, and have no further interesting stories to tell. But, pictures will be up one of these days. Thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday! Thanks Aunt Linda and family for sending me the card! And Mom, I have to go pick up your package way downtown. So that is on the intinerary for tomorrow.