Every once in a while in Haiti, the youth here has a party and all the youth in Haiti is invited. So it turned out that on Saturday, November 5^th there was one scheduled. This one was to take place at Roch Blanch at the old CSI compound. It is a huge mansion there and a massive yard. Feels like you walk inside the gates of a small city. So Friday night comes, and the youth from Oriani and the white youth wonder how we are going to get down the mountain! “Bondye konnen” (God knows) Matt and Sherri had the Excursion down in Port-au-Prince and the transmission for the ambulance was laying at it's side. So thankfully Keith was willing to work on the old Excursion and get it ready for us to take. We were going to meet the Savann Mounton people in Forte about 20 minutes from our house Saturday morning. We met them and Quenton, one of the unit guys, drove our machin. We had about 10 people in ours and a totally chaotic ride down. We had just the craziest time! Singing the whole three hour drive. And many different CE programs..Charlette was a great instigator of it all. You have a solo...and you give a testimony..and you sing a song in Spanish (even though no one knew Spanish and trust me that didn't stop anyone)..and there was lots of sermons on movies and music and phones.. and Laughing and more Laughing. Almost more than anything else. Anyway a very entertaining ride down there. We arrived at the house around 2 o'clock. And even though the party was supposed to start at 12 I believe, we weren't a bit late. Actually almost the first ones. When life mostly consists of trying to survive and find food and that is your only mission in life, watching the youth let go and play like children made me so happy. We had races and people would just fall to the ground laughing. I also found out that Christelle does not like to be pushed very high in a swing. She started screaming and screaming at Mis Kay to stop pushing her!! I don't know how she is ever going to fly in an airplane someday. Made me laugh and laugh. Then more congregations started showing up. Each in their own unique vehicle. The congregations in Port are very similar to home and so the youth are extremely fun to be with. The guys all went behind the tree and changed into their soccer uniforms... they take this very seriously. And made up teams and you can just see that they love this game! And it's all about having a good time.. the girls tried to play some volleyball. But mostly that was a joke. Heather tried to teach them some but it just wasn't working too well. It made me miss my volleyball back at home so much!! We hit the ball back at forth though and no one at that point could dampen my spirit..it was all just so fun! Lacey taught a big group of people how to play Duck, Duck, Goose. Boy, I have never in my life laughed so hard at that game. People just flat out tackling each other to get to the spot in time. And the short dresses flying up..and oh it was hilarious. Issac and Heather had made spaghetti for us all. I've heard there was about One hundred and fifty youth there. And she was just scraping the bottom of the bowl when the last person went through the line... and there was SWEET TEA to drink. A very special thing. Then everyone gathered around and sang a song and one of the youth guys announced the next party. December 27. A Christmas party. And Oriani is in charge of the cakes and drinks...and everyone has to bring a gift for it too... so I am looking forward to it! Well who wouldn't be! ….and now the ride home. Stopped at a gas station and Chase bought us all some ice cream! So this day was full of loveliness! More singing and laughing to follow... and it was dark and the way home is always enjoyable and everybody is kinda of sleepy from such a wonderful day. One of my favorite days for sure.