We arrived safely and in good time at our host site for our stay in D.C. It is the International Guest House which is run by the Allegany Conference of Mennonites. Wilbur and Helen Yoder, our volunteer hosts are very sweet and provide a very warm welcome. The pics are of the house and it's wonderful porch.
We walked 8 blocks tonight to get supper from a Carry out Chinese place that took about 45 minutes to prepare. The city definitely changed the farther we walked... and while we were waiting for dinner, we were glad that we were not staying in that part of town. The house is in a great section though.
At 9 p.m. every night... the 13 residents and staff all join together for tea in the living room. That was fun... we drank iced tea and had birthday cake for Wilbur's birthday and went around the circle introducing ourselves. One lady was from Harrisonburg VA and after a few more sentences we found out she grew up in Belleville PA... SMALL WORLD... There were other connections as well... a delightful time... met one lady... Rasy who is from Cambodia and is blind and homeless... but had enough money to travel from the streets of California to here... she spent last night at Reagan Airport and is here tonight and then will go back to the airport... interesting lady... I really enjoyed talking to her.
This is going to be a great experience for our kids... each morning they put the flags from the countries that the guests represent on the table at breakfast. Tomorrow there will be one for Cambodia, Congo, among others. Neat, neat experience!
We walked 8 blocks tonight to get supper from a Carry out Chinese place that took about 45 minutes to prepare. The city definitely changed the farther we walked... and while we were waiting for dinner, we were glad that we were not staying in that part of town. The house is in a great section though.
At 9 p.m. every night... the 13 residents and staff all join together for tea in the living room. That was fun... we drank iced tea and had birthday cake for Wilbur's birthday and went around the circle introducing ourselves. One lady was from Harrisonburg VA and after a few more sentences we found out she grew up in Belleville PA... SMALL WORLD... There were other connections as well... a delightful time... met one lady... Rasy who is from Cambodia and is blind and homeless... but had enough money to travel from the streets of California to here... she spent last night at Reagan Airport and is here tonight and then will go back to the airport... interesting lady... I really enjoyed talking to her.
This is going to be a great experience for our kids... each morning they put the flags from the countries that the guests represent on the table at breakfast. Tomorrow there will be one for Cambodia, Congo, among others. Neat, neat experience!
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