Day 1 – Friday, August 6th

• YYZ (Toronto) -> IAH (Houston) -> SAN (San Diego)

Day 2 – Saturday, August 7th

• Breakfast at Stella's on Third in Chula Vista.  Great breakfast food & Mexican hot chocolate.

• Drove Along HW1 in Mexico.

• Arrived at the orphanage in early evening.

Day 3 – Sunday, August 8th

• Went to church in the morning, how I wished I knew more Spanish.

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Day 4 – Monday, August 9th

• Kitchen duty, need I say more?

• If I remember correctly, the menu was spaghetti for lunch.

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Day 5 – Tuesday, August 10th

• Volunteered for kitchen duty.  ¿Estás loca?

• I don't exactly remember the menu anymore, was there some deep-fried stuff like bacon and curly fries?

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Day 6 - Wednesday, August 11th

• Construction day.

• Helped to put in the concrete floor for the Espinosa family.

• Muchachas: shoveled gravel + sand to be added to the mixer.

• Muchachos: added cement and aqua to the mixer and poured concrete.

• Also donated clothes and diapers to a family who lived in a shack right next door.

• After a day of hard labour, it was much appreciated that Estella, the cook for the orphanage, offered to cook us dinner.

• We had chicken mole and tacos that were simply amazing. 

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Day 7 - Thursday, August 12th

• Found out at breakfast that all the chicken we bought had gone bad.  Someone had turned our fridge off...

• What a crappy day to be on kitchen duty.

• Scrambled to put lunch on the table.  Thank goodness for leftover spaghetti from a coupe of days ago.

• The hockey tournament concluded in the afternoon.

• Dinner menu: improvised huevo + salsa + cheese quesadilla.  Actually turned out pretty good.

• We drove to Ensenada for our own dinners.  Great fish and shrimp tacos.  Also tried the shrimp + octopus cocktail that Enid ordered.

• Yummy churros too.

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Day 8 - Friday, August 13th

• Not on kitchen duty.

• Drove into town to get more groceries and soy sauce for the chicken fried rice that we made for lunch.

• Bought mole sauce & salsa verde from the supermarket to try in Canada.

• The award ceremony for the hockey tournament took place in the early afternoon.

• Took the kids to a swimming pool situated in the middle of nowhere.  Literally an oasis.

• Last-minute dinner idea: McDonald's happy meals for all the kids.

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Day 9 - Saturday, August 14th

• Woke up and gave each kid a paper bag of goodies.

• After saying our goodbyes, we drove south to Ensenada for lunch and souvenir shopping.  I had some more fish and shrimp tacos, as well as churros to satisfy my poor stomach.

• Then it was time to start heading back to the States.

• Had IHOP for dinner and will forever avoid it...

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Day 10 - Sunday, August 15th

• SAN (San Diego) -> IAH (Houston) -> YYZ (Toronto)

• Home sweet home.