Saturday, September 29, 2012

W'apow mu e, 

A few weeks ago, Joe was invited to the wedding of the second in command at the Immigration office.  Joe told him that he would go to the wedding.  So, the man wanted to put Joe on the program.  When it was time for the wedding to start this morning, out of the thirteen people listed on the program who were supposed to sit on the platform, Joe was the only one there.  The man who was supposed to be preaching did not arrive until the bride was coming down the aisle.  Joe was beginning to wonder if he was going to be doing a wedding today.  He did ask Joe to do the exchanging of the rings.  Joe said that it was a very nice wedding.  The groom was escorted down the aisle with Immigration officers in camouflage uniforms carrying swords.  Then, the bride and her father were also escorted by the same group carrying swords.  He said that there were probably 800 people there.

Joe said that when it was time for the groom to kiss the bride, the pastor said, "You may show your appreciation for her."  They hugged because he had not told them to kiss.  People in the crowd were hissing because they were waiting for the kiss.  Joe leaned over and told the pastor to make them kiss.  So, the pastor said, "Would you like to show your appreciation further?"  (Joe was a little worried when he heard that question!)  Then, they kissed, and the people were happy.

The kids did some cleaning this morning.  They played for a while.  Then, I had both boys do some reading.  Bonnie wanted to "read" too.  Then, they went back outside.  

A few minutes later, Gilbert came running in and said, "Mom, I had a great idea to build a ramp for the bikes.  But, Danny tried it and had a big crash.  He's hurt bad, Mom."  About that time, in walked Danny.  There was blood everywhere.  I couldn't tell where the blood was coming from at first.  I thought it must be coming from his head because of how much blood there was.  I got him cleaned up and found the cut on the back of his head.  After a few minutes, we got the bleeding mostly stopped.  It was not split open, just a good scrape.  After all of that, I asked Gilbert where the ramp was.  He said that it was in the dirt pile, which is at the bottom of our driveway.  Gilbert went out to show me what happened.  He had Danny start at the top of the driveway.  By the time he hit the ramp, he had picked up too much speed.  He flew off of the bike, and the bike landed on top of him.  The handlebars hit his head.  Later, Danny was telling me how it happened.  He said, "My chin hit the ground first.  Then, the bike landed on top of me.  I wasn't lying like I was sleeping; I was facing the other way."  He scraped up his chin and his arm too, but they weren't bleeding.  In the middle of all of that, Bonnie was trying to show me a scrape on her knee that needed a band-aid.  Gilbert felt bad that Danny got hurt.  He said, "Maybe I should never have any great ideas again!"

We got some rain this afternoon.  The kids played outside again after naps.  The rain had stopped by that time.

We were back to load shedding tonight.  We had not had it for a couple nights.  We thought maybe it was over, but that was wishful thinking.

Nantsew yie!

Joe, Laura, Gilbert, Danny, and Bonnie