Playground

Since Rachel has been doing such a great job on her potty training, she earned a trip to the playground. There is a playground only a couple of blocks from our place, but it is only open from 4-6pm. So we haven't had a chance to go yet. It was actually a quite large playground, and there were a lot of children there. They had all the fun equipment that we used to play on as kids (since now they have taken all those out in the U.S. b/c supposedly they are unsafe).

Again, we got a lot of stares, but mostly with smiles as well. One man came up with 2 boys (one his, the other his brother's son), and tried to start a conversation up with us. He was very nice, but his English wasn't great, and obviously we are terrible at Sinhalese, so it was a little hard to communicate. We did get that his wife actually lives in Dubai and works as a house maid, while him & his 3 year old son stay here. We hear that happens a lot. One spouse ends up leaving to make more money & sends it home, but rarely ever ends up coming back. Very sad. He ended up buying Rachel an ice cream cone; it was very sweet for him to do that. Please pray for him & his family. You could tell he missed his wife very much. I hope we run into him again.