WIRED

Not all time in Burkina is spent, on the streets, with the poor, under the blazing sun, shaking dirty hands and hugging African children, in fact that is not a very typical day for any of us, although you do find it happening often.

This past weekend was the farthest thing from the 'typical African life', and was all about being 'Girls.'

We have a 30-50 person English speaking youth group, which meets at our house, the HUB, every Thursday night. And this past weekend I hosted a SLUMBER PARTY for all of the girls in the youth. It was a blast!

We had enough food, 'snacks' to feed an army!

Plenty of games; this one here is what I call 'wet t-shirt contest' aka try to unfreeze your team's t-shirt and then put it on before the other teams.

Some teams got really creative and used the microwave (and still lost)

Then we played Quelf, a very intriguing and funny board game.

And of course every sleepover needs facials, homemade facials at that...let's just say they weren't the best smelling things ever, especially when your supplies are limited to what you can find in Africa.

Group photo, before the movies!

The next morning.....

Boy, I sure had forgotten how much fun it was just to be with girls, to pamper yourselves, to eat a bunch of junk food, and to watch movies that melt your heart. It was such an incredible time to spend getting to know these dear, precious, and hysterical girls just a little more and to realize once again how thankful I am to be who I am, where I am!