Missing Pimampiro

Once again it is Monday...and I am realizing how many things have happened and how many things I havent written about. So...we found out that our dream house/farm is much pricier than we had expected and much pricier than it should be. So, we have a plan and a budget and everything but now we have to find a place to do it. This farm is great, perfect location, perfect for exactly what we want to do...but obviously this is not the place but I am certain that we will find it. We have an amazing team here and so many people that want to help us make our dreams come true...so I/we are trusting that all this works out.

We have arrived back in Guayaquil as of 6 am...its hot and we miss Pimampiro already! The entire floor of the hospital where we are living is great! It has 11 bathrooms and 8 bedrooms and tons of space for us to house all of the MMRC volunteers! We will be doing screenings over the next week here and finding out what surgical teams are needed. Hopefully shortly after we will put together a team and get these surgeries done! MMRCglobal.org is meeting a little bit of resistance from the hospital staff here, they dont want any donations of equipment since they are a for-profit hospital. This means hopefully that when we get donations Liz and I can take them up north with us! Thankfully Liz and I have met no resistance in the north, the people up there are nothing but nice and gladly welcome any help that we can give them. Everyday we are given more opportunities and have more people willing to help us to help more people. It is amazing how things work out when I/we are so open to doing whatever comes my way. I am more than confident that the dreams and goals that the three of us (new Paul, Liz, and I) have are going to become a reality in only a short time in Pimampiro.

Katie comes this week and we are super excited to see her! She is bringing us all kinds of goodies...since she is the first person to come down since we have been here. We are super thankful for all of the things that she is bringing in her suitcase! Who is coming next??

I, of course have to mention the bus ride yesterday...might possibly have been one of the worst. First, we find out that the "nice bus" is full...so we decide to go to the bus station a little early to see if we can find something earlier. This original "nice bus" left at 730pm and got us to Guayaquil at 6am...this meant that we had to leave Pimampiro around 5. Well, after we called and found out that the bus was full we decided to leave early...it was about 3 when we got on the packed bus from Pimampiro to Ibarra. This is about an hour ride, but this time it took almost 2 and a majority of this time we were standing. Finally we got to sit down, but when I did a man reeking of alcohol decided I needed some company. He started asking me all kinds of questions, one being if I was from Pimampiro...of course I answered yes! Then he laughed...after one more question I told him very bluntly 'I dont want to talk to you!' he of course asked why and with no response he gave up. All this happening while Liz is about 5 feet away yelling at me to move away from him...unfortunately there was nowhere to go. When we arrived at the bus terminal there were people everywhere...we bought our bus tickets and found a place to wait for 2 long hours. We missed the 3pm bus and had to wait until 7pm...we ate and talked and sat and and and. 7 finally came, we boarded the bus...the guy that sat behind us had his not so personal sound system blasting, a lady came stomping and crying mascara running down her face and yelling at the man that was with her, and it seemed as if every child on the bus was screaming! Finally when we left at a prompt 7pm, as they said that we would (saying we left at 730 might be optimistic) and of course our driver was a crazy man! It wasnt one hour into the ride and we hit a small truck! Of course the people on the bus are screaming at the guy and screaming at our driver, after about 20 minutes sitting on the side of the road (and Liz hanging her head out the window to make sure our bags didnt get pulled off the bus) we were off again only to stop again shortly after. This time, not for an accident...but for who knows what. But, the people on the bus started stomping their feet and yelling for the driver to get back on the road. RIDICULOUS! But....luckily we made it here in just about 11 hours and it only cost us $10!! What can you ask for for only $10? Not too much...obviously!

As far as donations we will be setting up a website, or adding onto a website a donate button specifically for Liz and I and our projects. As for now, if you just cant wait let me know on facebook or by email and Ill give you an address! Thank you all so very much for supporting us!

We just got back from looking at a house/farm that would be perfect for our orphanage! It is about 10 acres, has fruit trees and a garden, and alot of rooms and bathrooms! We plan to take in as many kids as we can, employ as many women in the community as we can to cook and clean, and a few men to teach the kids how to work in the garden. The plan is the teach the kids how to grow as much food as possible and eventually grow all the food that is eaten on the property. We also plan to teach the kids English, and teach the people in the community English because the people who speak English have many more opportunities here. Once we get all of this under control then I hope to be able to have all my friends and family from home come down and share in my joy with these kids! So many things that we want to do! and cant wait to get them started! The only issue is money...it is for sale...we are going to talk to the owners tonight! If this place is meant to be, please pray that it will all work out! Yesterday we went up to Chuga...a community that we can see from Pimampiro...but that is about an hour drive around the mountain and up a very steep bumpy terrible road. The first time that we went to this town (one day last week) we went on dirtbikes. Shhh, dont tell my mom! It so happened to be raining that day, which it does most days, and the guy who was driving the dirtbike couldnt keep it on the road. It was definitely an adventure, with only one time that we were going one direction and suddenly we slid in the mud and were facing right back where we came from. There are about 100 families that live in this community but there are about 5 other communities that feed into this one. It is beautiful and the people have an amazing spirit. All the people here work so very hard and have so very little but are truly happy. We worked with the nurses in the clinic and saw quite a few patients...they only have a doctor in this clinic on Wednesdays so the people come from far and wide to see him. You would die if you walked the distances that these old ladies walk...i would die for sure! I just realized that the last time that I blogged was last Tuesday....I know that I say this everytime that I blog but the days are flying by! I dont even know what else to write about...this weekend we went down to Quito and met up with a bunch of whities! They all work in different parts of Ecuador for the Peace Corp. It was a fun weekend, we ate alot and spoke alot of English! How nice it is to be able to speak English with someone else other than Liz...dont get me wrong I love speaking Spanish but I cannot truly express myself in Spanish yet. It is super frustrating and I wish that it was easier...but someday...I hope someday soon it will happen! Before we went down to Quito we went to Paragachi...remember that little town with about 100 families just down the road from Pimampiro? It is super dry and Montañas de Esperanza (the organization here that is doing the biointensive gardening) is trying to get them water. They have rights to water but dont have the money to channel the water from its source to their town. They have drinking water but are not allowed to use that water for their plants. We are hoping tto get that project going soon! But, we went there on Saturday with our friend Romero who works for Child Fund out of the US. They work with the families and kids around Ecuador to get them food, clothes, and schooling. Since there were going to be lots of families and kids around we went to ask them some questions, to see if there are orphans in their town, what kinds of foods that they eat, and what we can do to help them. These people are so happy and they live in a desert, lacking most everything that you or I would consider necessary to live... While in Paragachi I got so many bug bites that my left ankle was swollen to the size of an older lady who hadnt gotten up to walk in weeks!! It was horrible...so swollen and so itchy...its getting better but I still have dark purple circles all the way around. This is the worst of my suffering, on top of the shower...I will survive! I love it here! One day this week we went to Ibarra, Ibarra is the closest ¨city¨to where we are...the main reason we go there is to have capuccino! Its the little things in life that make me happy! What I would do for brownies or homemade chocolate chip cookies or a fabulous breakfast!! The things Im willing to do without but...still miss all the same! This capuccino place makes great coffee..i mean great compared to the instant stuff that this entire country drinks daily. We also went there to get jackets...we have to wear white jackets when we work in the clinics, cause all of the nurses here wear all white. They say that they people dont know who we are if we arent wearing them...haha! While driving down the street that day Paul ( the one that lives here and invited us up here) started yelling at someone on the sidewalk. We parked quickly and started talking to this guy...he just so happens to be the medical director of this entire province. Amazing how things just work out! He actually used to be the director here in Pimampiro of the clinic and has organized some medical students from New York University to come and work down here. He is super excited to have us here and wants us to go to Ibarra to work and his very good friend is the administrator of the hospital there. This hospital in Ibarra is the closest hospital to Pimampiro, which means that if there is something that needs more attention than the clinic here can handle everyone must go there. Its about an hour away...can you imagine?? To answer the questions about donations...we plan to set up something somewhere to make that possible. As soon as I get it figured out I will let you know! Thank you all so much for all of your love and support!! I couldnt do this without each and every one of you...

Passion

I cant wait to get back to Lima to see my kiddos! Dont get me wrong, I love Pimampiro but the faces of those kids are in my brain every day! Its amazing how small town a small town can be, I know that I grew up in a small town but I didnt walk the streets of Greenwood or frequent many places on a daily basis...here after only being here a little over a week I see the same people every day. Its amazing how much of a family one entire town can be. Last week we bought white jackets to wear to work, because all the nurses here wear white, and a lady here in town told us that she would pick them up for us on Saturday. Well, every day this week we have gone by her house to ask her for the jackets and every day she tells us first she will have them in the afternoon then later that it wont be til the next day. Yesterday afternoon we asked her again, she said she had no idea when she could get them. But, while we were having dinner we got a phone call from Romero (a man that works with the organization that we work with here but doesnt live in Pimampiro) and he told us that our jackets were ready. All night we were wondering how in the world he knew...this morning we asked her and she said that his wife is his cousin. Crazy how interconnected EVERYONE is here! I feel like we made alot of headway this week...met alot of people and have alot of opportunities. Our number one priority is assessing the area to see if an orphanage/daycare would be useful. Liz and I have both dreamed of someday having an orphanage, and we think that every day here is a day closer to achieving that. Ultimately we would like to help Clara in the orphanage in Lima by building on to the house that she currently has and by helping her feed the kids the remaining 15 days of the month that they have no food. We would also like to start an orphanage in Pimampiro. There are a few orphans here but the majority of the kids are just super poor. They have parents but they live in very terrible conditions and do not have much food. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers, we have alot of planning time to spend both here and in Lima. This planning time is coming out of our own bank accounts which is slightly stressful knowing that our time here may be cut short for something as ridiculous as money. But...we both know that we are right where we are supposed to be and things will work out just like they are supposed to! On top of our passion of the orphanages we are working to find out what health needs there are in Pimampiro. We are working together with MMRC to hopefully provide medical care such as surgeries or equipment to help better this community. These people are amazingly appreciative of the smallest things, and they always have a smile on their faces! Definitely a lesson for those of us who have everything...

How fast the days are passing

I cant believe how quickly every day passes, I feel like I have been in Pimampiro FOREVER...and its actually just been one week. Life here is great...everyone works as a community, everyone says hi to eachother in the streets, there is no crime, the views are amazing, and on and on. We feel very at home here, we feel as if we are in a place that we could stay for quite some time, a place that we would love for each and everyone of you to see! Imagine as the sun comes up and the clouds burn off seeing mountains on all sides, green lush mountains with more types of plants than you can find most anywhere else in the world. And then every block that you walk someone says goodmorning, and when you arrive at work you get a kiss on the cheek and a hug from everyone. Such a loving and welcoming culture. Thursday we arrived at the clinic as we had discussed the day before with the director, she put us right to work helping out the nurses. Nurses here play a very different role then in the states, as you will see. First we did intake, things like height, weight, and temperature after we made it through all the patients then we made some gauze. How exactly did we do that you may ask...well it comes in a box cut into squares (or what is supposed to be squares) and we must fold them exactly the same way every time to make a stack of six. After making this stack of six then they are placed into a piece of paper that is folded like oragami and then placed into the autoclave...now they are called sterile gauze. Im not exactly sure if it works like this, but that is what we do most afternoons in the clinic. At the end of the day she told us to ¨go learn Spanish¨, duh lady like we arent trying! Her attitude made us not want to return... After that first day of work, which is obviously not what we want to do while we are here, we talked to Paul (the new one). We decided not to let her get the best of us and return to the clinic in the morning but let her in on what we are trying to accomplish here. Paul went with us and we let her into our thoughts and what we could do for her and her community. Things are better...but she still tells us to go home and learn Spanish every day. Geez lady...its not like I can be fluent in 2 days...but I do wish that that was possible. Just a little tidbit about the shower water...I never feel clean! The water is barely a drip and you have to chase that one drip around the shower. When you soap your leg, you have to lift it as high as possible for the soap to even rinse off, needless to say my hair still has shampoo from last week! This past weekend, Elaina´s (our momma here) daughter came home from college. She is 23 and is in chef school in Quito. Saturday night she invited us to go for a ride with her and her friends, this riding basically is one square mile around Pimampiro. We pass the same people, honk at the same people, then when that gets old we stop in front of the plaza (town square) all pile out and turn up the ipod player. After a few hours that got old, we walked the block home and headed to bed. The past few days have been a special time around here, the man who has donated a large amount of money for alot of the projects in Pimampiro has been visiting. Sunday we (everyone that has anything to do with the projects here) hosted a dinner for this guy Ken, Sue (a lady who is from the states but teaches here) was in charge and she rounded us all up to help. We spent the day chopping vegetables and cutting up fruit and helping her make enchilades for this Mexican themed dinner. It was a great success with many of the key players here attending. There was a live band, the oldies were dancing away...and we got to talk to Ken about our potential projects. He is super excited to see what we come up with...so keep that connection in your thoughts please! Monday morning we joined the enterage and headed up to San Francisco, one of the 35 surrounding communities, to check out the biointensive gardens. Basically these people are double digging their gardens, composting, and not using pesiticides and their fruits and vegetables are turning out so much better. It truly amazing the progress that they have made. Liz and I got the priveledge to ride in the back of the truck (the bed-yes) where we could see all the sites on our way up to the sky. This small town is way up in the clouds, not sure the exact height but I do know that Pimampiro is at 10,000 feet and we drove an hour uphill to get to this village. These people were proud to show us their gardens. After the gardens we checked out the trout farm. Someone built 10 years ago a facility to grow trout and abandoned it for whatever reason. There happens to be a man in this community that is an expert in this field, he has come up with a whole plan where they can produce the eggs and grow the trout from egg to death in just 8 months. They are hoping to get this project underway very soon. By this time it is lunch time on Monday, we head to the school (where the kids have their own garden beds at the school and also will be working with the trout) and they serve us lunch. Lunch was great, with smoked trout and all! After saying goodbye we checked out the clinic, where they see about 35 patients a day and have some equipment and medications given to them by the government. It runs pretty well, but they are open to any help that we can offer. We jumped back in the back of the truck and returned to Pimampiro, ice cream was our first stop (the ice cream here is amazing) then to Paragachi. Paragachi is only afew miles downhill from Pimampiro but it is like a desert, the ground is super sandy and they have no water to water their gardens. They have running water in their houses, some people, but the government does not allow that water to be used for watering plants. Therefore they are proposing a water project to bring the water from its source about 5 miles away. Expensive, but needed since this place is so dry. While in Paragachi we decided we wanted to play the kids in a game of soccer. I have you know the gringos (white people) won! with the help of a few little local boys of course. Definitely was a site Im sure...the best part was this old Colombian man who lives there, he walks with a walking stick but he quickly threw that thing down and was headeding balls and giving us young folk a run for our money. Couldnt believe that man could move like that! Check out Liz´s pictures...Ill post some another day. One more thing that I forgot...there is a girl/lady that works at the house that we are staying at that obviously has a handicap but our ¨mom¨here has people working for her all day every day, just helping her around the house. She usually doesnt say much but just stares at us when we are in the house, well the other day when Elaina left she pulled out her wallet. She was showing us pictures in her wallet and her ID card...it read ¨47% incapacitated¨...hmm does the government really give these people a percentage or retardedness?

Our kids!

Liz and I have decided to keep this orphanage in Lima, we are going to work with Solidarity in Action to try to raise money to feed them and eventually build onto their way too small house that they live in now. There are 15 kids that live there all the time, orphans, and then 30-40 that spend their days there. They have a very small space to play with only cement floors, this space is also cleared out and tables put up so that they can eat their meals. Clara has taken these kids into her home and is a great mom to all of them. I want to introduce you to each of our kids! After a day at the beach with Liz and Jana!

The best picture that I have of Antony...for whatever reason I cant find a better one. But...I will work on that in 2 weeks when I get to see him again!

Jamie...9 years old.

Angie...12 years old.

The kid on the right is Fernando...11 years old and has lived in the orphanage for 6 years.

Yovana....the one that I want to adopt! She is such a good little girl...super helpful with the other kids. She has lived in this house for 6 years. Treated her for scabies and lice.

Valerie...2 years old...treated her for lice and a staph infection on her face.

Carlos...3 years old and very attached to Clara.

Jhackeysi...6 years old...the younger sister of Jhon and Jhael. Treated her for lice.

Jhohan...9 years old. Fernandos uncle. Cesar...4 years old.

Jhael...twin to Jhon and older brother to Jhackeysi...7 years old.

Jhon...twin brother to Jhael and older brother to Jhackeysi...7 years old.

Lucho...8 years old...super smart. Has lived in the orphanage for 6 years.

There are 2 kids missing, I will have to take pictures of them when we go back in 2 weeks. This is a start...I hope that they steal your heart just like they did mine! I cant wait to see these faces and get hugs and kisses from them in just 2 weeks!

blog post from Monday March 14

This is the blog written with no internet connection on Monday March 14. Therefore, it was written BEFORE the last blog posted and could possibly have some repeated information. It has once again been too many days since I have blogged, the days are flying by for some reason. The past week has been more uneventful than the weeks prior so I keep telling myself that I will blog as soon as I have something to write about. Apparently I have a lot to write about but just didn’t have an exact plan as to what our next step was going to be…but now I do! Upon arriving in Guayaquil we were expecting to be given some direction, unfortunately that did not happen. Last week was Carnival therefore a lot of the offices and therefore our contacts that we had made were closed, so when we arrived Paul was more than frustrated. But, as the week went on we talked to more and more people and got more and more insight into what we might be doing down here. Javier (our contact in Lima) gave us the name and number of a lady that he thought could help us, we contacted her and she is super excited to help facility everything that we want to do! We visited a few clinics, that are understaffed but running pretty well. But, the final place that we visited this past Saturday was a hospital in a rural area with about a million people in 8 square miles. The hospital used to be full, according to the administration but they have to charge a small fee ($5) since they are a private hospital. Because of this fee most of the people go to the public hospital which has absolutely no resources according to our contacts. This hospital has 3 working operating room suits with 3 working ventilators and the ability to do laparoscopic surgeries. There is one nurse for the entire hospital, they have about 20 inpatient beds and a trauma bay. While we were there there was only one patient, but apparently they get about 30 patients a day. The best part about this place is that there is an “apartment” on the top floor. They offered for us to house people up there, so we are waiting to hear back to see MMRC can live up there permanently. So, the plan is to first assess the area and find out what the needs are. Once we figure that out then we will put together teams to come down and address those needs, surgeons or orthopedist or whatever we find out will be useful. We are super excited to get these programs going and think that we have found the perfect place to facilitate our needs. In the midst of meeting with people and seeing these places in Guayaquil we ran into a man named Paul (yes, another Paul-we have deemed him ‘new’ Paul) who was staying at our hostel. It all started by him asking Liz if she knew the password for the internet. As we started to talk he started sharing all that he is involved in down here, he is teaching the people how to do organic farming, (which they have implemented in the schools) he has helped start an all girls school and clinics. He has been involved with these people for 15 years. As we were talking he was super excited to have us join him and meet the people and see what we could do to help. We mentioned that we are super interested in starting an orphanage, and he said that he doesn’t know of one around! But…that there aren’t too many orphans because someone usually takes them in. So, that is how Liz and I have ended up in Quito tonight! The five of us (MMRC) discussed the options that we had in front of us and decided that Liz and I would come up north and check out the projects that new Paul is working on and how we could be useful there and big Paul would continue organizing and finding out more information for the project in Guayaquil and Nick and Bridget will be going to work on an organic farm for a few days with a guy from Amsterdam (that we also met at the hostel). So, here we are…Liz and I sleeping in a hostel in Quito. We took yet another bus, but only 10 hours this time, north to a place much colder than anywhere that we have been lately. Its FREEZING here! Freezing compared to Guayaquil…but much warmer than most of you are at home Im sure. Here, we met Paul (who flew) at a ghetto bus station somewhere in the north of Quito where our bus just left us. This lady, who thought it necessary to sit basically on top of me, would not quit talking to me. She asked me a million questions, asked to use my phone, and told me I look like Im Chinese! Crazy lady! Fortunately Paul arrived, but he seemed to have a sad face when he met us, we instantly knew that something was wrong but since he is our new friend we gave him time to explain. Someone had stolen his laptop…and his camera…and everything that was inside of his laptop bag. So terrible, but as we talked about it we basically concluded that what comes around goes around and that guy is in for something bad! The worst part is that he lost pictures and lots of work on his computer. Plan as of now is for Liz and I to head up to Pimampiro (4 hours north of Quito) tomorrow with new Paul and check out all of his programs. We are super excited and ready to see what we can do in this village. He has told us all sorts of amazing stories, so we have high hopes for what we can do in this place. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we are trying to figure out exactly where we are supposed to be and where we may be most useful.

you know you are old when....

your ankles swell to be the size of your calves when you sit for a long period of time! and then it takes them FOREVER to go back to normal size. I remember a time, not too long ago, that i was in south america traveling and riding buses for months with no issues...now when riding for only a short time my ankles are huge! Other than that, I am so super tired...every day all day. Im not sure what the issue is but im going to just say its my age and all this packing and unpacking and carrying 60 pounds on my back and getting on and off buses just makes me feel like im suddently 85. Anyway, on to more exciting things... So, I blogged all about this past week but it is stuck on the laptop. We are in a town with no wifi, imagine that! And we tried connecting it straight to the cable and it still doesnt work...so we are in an internet cafe where we are paying 80 cents per hour. A little out of our budget, we know, but we are trying to keep you all updated! If and when I can get that off ill post it too. But, for now let me think about all the things that have occured over the past week. Let me start with how we got to Pimampiro. After a day of looking at clinics and meeting people in Guayaquil we met a man in our hostel (Paul-now deemed ´new´ Paul) who was there setting up an event for next month. He asked Liz for the password for the wifi at the hostel and it was all history from there. He started telling us all about his life here in Pimampiro, and how it is eternal spring and how beautiful and amazing the people are. We were instantly interested in his work, he has a foundation where he is teaching the people to farm organically. There is a big problem here with them using chemicals and pesticides and people are dying from working in the fields with these substances. They have also strated a girls school and are implented the organic farming into the schools. Its amazing the headway that they hvae made in 5 short years. The more we talked to new Paul, and basically told him that we were open to anything he invited us to come up here and visit. We discussed all sorts of options of other programs, including an orphanage or some sort of home/safe haven for girls that have been sexually abused. So many options, but the best part is that he already has a presence here and is willing to help us in whatever way that he can! We arrived here last night after leaving Guayaquil on Monday morning. The bus ride was a short 10 hours to Quito where we met Paul and stayed the night in Mariscola. Breakfast and a little sightseeing and then we jumped on another bus to Otavala. Otavala´s claim to fame is that it is the largest market in all of South America quite possible the world. We met Segundo there, who is a friend of Paul´s and also a man who on his own built a building behind his house where he teaches over 100 kids about their heritage and the importance of keeping it. Amazing man trying to make a difference! He invited to his families house and told us that his house is our house. After some lunch and time at the market we threw our stuff on another bus and headed up to Ibarra. Ibarra is the nearest ´city´ to where we are. Off the bus in Ibarra, Paul had to take care of some business than back on the final bus to our new location...Pimampiro. After an hour of stopping every other block to pick someone up or drop someone off we drove faster than we should have up a windy hilly road and arrived about 20 feet from Paul´s doorstep. We arrived and his friend who is working with him at the project had dinner ready for us! So thankful for such thoughtful people! Now, they set up for us a place to stay here, with a super nice lady. She lives alone, recently her husband left her and her mother died, her kids live in the states and she loves to entertain. She is like our Ecuadorian mother! We plan on staying there for at least a week, maybe two while we are getting to know the area (not that there is too much to get to know since its almost 2 square miles and only 5000 people) and then deciding if we will stay up here or go somewhere new. Today we visited the clinic here, it runs pretty well but is lacking supplies. There are so many patients and just not enough staff. We met with the director and she told us that they see quite a few traumas from things such as car accidents or just accidents in general. We walked into the ¨trauma¨room which consists of one gurney and a small metal table with 3 bottles of alcohol a box of gloves and a metal tin that was supposed to have meds in it but had none. She told us that they are lacking IV´s and oxygen...which I know are two very important things when trying to attend to a trauma patient. She informed us that they just transfer the patient to the hospital that is an hour away, apparently without doing much for them before the transport. Can you imagine if you were the patient? So, starting in the morning we will work there and try to get our foot in the door of this community and see what else we can do to help them. Im sure you are wondering what we did with everyone else, the rest of the MMRC clan...well Big Paul is in Guayaquil working on our projects there, Nick and Bridget are working on a farm, and Liz and I are here. The plan is for Paul to get everything together in Guayaquil, he is making contacts and putting together some proposals of how we can help. We are planning on partnering with an inpatient hospital in the south east of the city where they have 3 working operating rooms and a functioning clinic. We are hoping to assess the needs of the community and bring down teams of people that can address these needs. This hospital is willing to let us use their space, we are just working on the final proposal. Keep this in your thoughts and as i know more i will post, but you can also check out MMRCglobal.org where we will also be updating. Before I bore you to death I am going to say goodbye...love and miss you all!