Orphanage Sleep Over Party

Melanie and I (after taking Teresa to the hospital) came home and showered and got all our sleeping gear, armed with bug spray, a mosquito net, and our own water and brought up two BIG mattress (which we planned to donate to the girls part of the dorm (after we slept over on them)because 6-7 of the girls sleep on the floor at night. Each bed has about 3-4 girls in it and they still need 6 on the floor. So we decided to have a sleep over party, which turned out to be perfect timing becuase it was the night before their last day of school before their holiday break for 2 weeks. The pictures are of us bringing the mattress up and then trying it out. So we brought up our tv, dvd player, and Pinina (on of the mothers of about 5) cooked LOADS of popcorn. We suprised the kids by coming back up to the orphanage int he middle of the night with our pjs on and told them we had a suprise. We set up a movie and everyone got popcorn while they watched. We all had a GREAT time. We were having the grand opening of the LIbrary the next day so once the movie was over Mel and I went to the library to decorate and clean it up. I will post the Libarary all finished and the kids enjoying it later. The kids absolutly loved the movie and popcorn and asked us all the next day if we could come for another sleep over. THe only problem was they TIRED us OUT. They went to bed at like midnight or 1am and then at 5am one of the older girls gets up and sings everyone else up and then as they are getting up they all join in. It is the BEST way i have ever woken up in the morning. They also set Mel and my mosquito net up and drapped it over our mattress that we were goign to donate so we felt like we were in a palace. There is a picture of the palace. It was the greatest expereince to have the children so honored that we would stay over with them that when we woke up they were all still staring at us. Mel and I had a GREAT time that night but it made it soooooooo hard to leave. It was the ultimate sleep over!