The Calm after the Easter Stor

Wow! It is raining yet again, OK not a major rainstorm, but still a cleansing of the sky (only in Cairo does the sky actually need to be cleansed!) unfortunately it reeks havoc on the ill equipped streets, no walking or biking today! Hopefully it will clear up in a few hours as I am supposed to take Caleb and a friend to check out an amusement park this afternoon for my summer VBS program called "One Wild Week." He will not take kindly to canceling such plans! He has been on Easter break for the past week and as much as I try to find fun things for him to do he is a social beast and it is never enough. he wanted to know who was coming over for breakfast yesterday! Seriously we can do breakfast on our own can't we? Only child, single parent...in his book it can't get much worse.

The week after a big holiday and schools on break all adds up to a slower paced work week. Hardly anyone is in the office, and aside from church no other events are on the calendar so I can work on things which lie on the horizon. For good and bad this summer will be lighter than the past 3 because so many plans had to be canceled b/c of revolution fallout. Most of my usual visiting groups and their African VBS' canceled so I am only in charge of one One Wild Week which is more like a day camp the week before the American school starts in Aug. It will be a challenge this year as it will fall fully within Ramadan which means CHAOS! We do more the traditional VBS schedule in the morning and then every afternoon we take a fun field trip, waterpark, reptile farm etc... The kids and parents loved it last year but this year it means every afternoon we will be trying to get back to the church fighting our way through Ramadan traffic. If you have ever been here and experienced the normal Cairo traffic you know how insane that can be, now add in the hunger/anger factor AND the entire city (20 mil) trying to get home at the exact same time in order to be seated and ready to eat at the first note of the call to prayer.
Also on my agenda is an end of the year event for the youth (formerly known as the Hoo Haw until that term was hijacked,) a sermon on Gal. 5:16-21, and a few other odds and ends.
So with all that said I need to get my butt in gear and get on with this day!