Team excursions!!!

It's Sunday, end of the 2nd week and we've managed to get to a pizza restaurant where they have free wi-fi. What a great find!! Don't know if the waiter is that impressed that we seem to have moved our office in (2 lap tops) and have only ordered drinks!!
Anyway...in our first blog I mentioned a trip to the zoo.
Let me tell you about it, but first, we had a trip to the cinema. Oh joy!!
We took 25 kids and half a dozen adults to the local cinema last Wednesday. Wednesday is special rate for kids (about £1 each) and many had never been to an actual cinema before.Thought that would be nice!!!
Must admit, Jane and John envisaged a hot little room somewhere with a tiny screen and a thousand kids scrambling over tiny hard seats. But No!!! What a pleasant suprise we had. Air-con and luxury seats. Fab!! And only our party and a few others.
We could enjoy this.
Ah, but then remembered as soon as the curtain went up that the film would be in flippin'Portuguese. Of course it would!! Be too much to ask for English sub titles...after all, these kids can speak a little English now, well, 'stand up, sit down, please, my name is...' etc etc. No sub titles, so almost 2 hours of Alvin the chipmunk and his chums squeaking Portuguese in surround sound.
Still, the kids loved it. Gabby (4 yrs) fell asleep on Jane's lap...lucky thing.
So, that was a success. Donations from some of you guys paid some of that, thanks so much.
Friday was ANOTHER excursion. This time to the zoo.
Somewhere else most of the kids aint not been. This would be a lovely treat again, especially as we had taught them animal names in English. Colin the crocodile, Gordon the giraffe...that sort of thing. Wot fun!!
As with Wednesday's trip to the cinema, forgot to tell you, we had the use of a 15 seater mini bus free of charge from a local hire firm (just the fuel to pay). Andre had worked his magic on the owner who could see the good we were trying to do.Praise the Big guy!!
We also used a 9 seater van owned by Samuel and the car we were using.
So far so good, until we got onto the highway out of town. AArghh!! The locals drive like loonies. Overtaking on the inside, outside, above and below all at 100 miles an hour. We had to drive in convoy with John driving (driving Miss Daisy at the best of times) and, needless to say it was a nightmare journey there and back. Can't talk about it...but we survived, thankfully.
So, the zoo. Not quite Marwell park, but it was free and the kids were excited, not least by the animal noises we could make to describe the forthcoming attractions.
It was hot, hot, hot again (over 33 degrees) and after 2 hours we were exhausted.
we took some bread rolls and hot meat to feed the kids as a picnic...but there is never enough food is there? We were famished...but it's not about us. remember that us guys.
Joy on the little faces made it all worthwhile (that was just the zoo staff as we were leaving)...so, thanks again to all who donated some dosh to help with this.
I'm going to stop now because the big group at the next table are really noisy and i can't concentrate proper.
Off to eat now.
More news soon. All God's BIG blessings to you all.
J & J