Stella joins the team.

Yesterday was day 4 of the Festival. In the mornings Delta Ministries has put together outings to keep the adventurous Americans active and out of trouble. This being my 4th trip, I have passed up on some opportunities to go sight seeing in the morning. I have seen most of the locations they have been going to, and can accomplish more things with the van if I stay behind.

3rd night at the end of Doug Valenzuela's Message. 

3 of our American Team are sick. 1 with a flu, 1 with vertigo, and 1, I believe, with stomach problems. Having Stella, we were able to go to a local pharmacy and pick up some medicine that can aid with these conditions. We stopped by the other hotel, where more Americans are staying, and used the printer; we made small flyers that we can hand out with the date, time, and location of the festival. I do not remember handing anything like this out before this year. We have the desire to walk around the community where the festival is being held, and hand flyers out so that more people are aware of what is going on. Having Stella for this was very helpful as well.

We had to go to the store to pick up more ingredients for the cooking booth. While there we handed out more flyers, inviting people to come. After handing out around 15 flyers, we were approached by security and told that we needed to stop handing them out, as it was illegal on the property. They were very kind to us, and did not kick us out, but kindly requested us to stop. I get it, I know when I am in a public area, I can't stand it when people hand me something and try to convince me to come to something or to buy something especially when I have something I am doing. We received very similar responses. Makes me re-think how I behave when someone does this in the future to me. We returned to the hotel and were able to rest up a bit before the team returned on the busses, then all went back to the Festival.

Inside the photo booth we have many children come in. They walk by looking at the giant canvases hanging, and run in all excited to have a picture taken. They are adorable.
I love taking their picture, then telling them, "Brava!". They look at me and say "Grazie" in their cute little Italian voices. We typically take about 10 pictures, then swap the card on the camera. While I am taking the pictures, other team members are printing them out around the corner. We stick Church labels on the back of the photo, so someone could come to church if they wanted. We tell everyone to come back tomorrow to get their pictures; Its our booth's technique to get them to come back.

In the photo booth - Laying out pictures from the day before. 

This is my pic