weekend of weekends...!!

scahey guys!! its been a long time since ive typed a full fledged scarlett style post... aka, 183298734 words total. but we had an awesome weekend this weekend, so im gonna fill you all in on what happened. some know, but many dont. so here i go.
ok, so we have rev brian here... and on thursday afternoon last week, we all (mom, morgy, jonno (hes a kid whos also staying with us for a bit) saray, lynette, sarah, gordon, rachel, brian and i) went to the pretoria botanical gardens. this was an awesome time, and i chilled with rachel most of the time... laughing at alot of random things, taking pictures, grimacing, and just having an awesome time. i have pics, but, ALAS, they are on gordons computer. that was a really nice time, especially since we came in our tiny little pick up, with some...seven people crammed in the back. rachel laughed so hard she drooled, sarah dished out a kleenex like it was an everyday occurence, sarah and i tried to (unsuccessfully) sing a song that lynettes friend... chris wrote... we sang really off... it was fun to try. that was nice. then, the plan was, since friday was a public holiday, brian would take us (gordon, sarah, lynette, rachel, tristan a friend from church, and i) out to hamanskraal (a rural area) and meet up with a friend of his, named oupa, who has a churhc. we would join some of his church's youth group, and go out and kinda evangalize to some people. so there were about 20 young people total, so we split into three groups... and each group would talk to six families about church and beliefs. i had a hard time understanding, coz most of it was spoken in Xhosa or Zulu, and i cant even speak Afrikaans yet!! that was a really good experience for me, since i have never been out in a township, and i just saw the way they live... and how much i really have. it was cool. then we had lunch at the early hour of 3 in the afternoon... which was a jolly affair. i sat by tristan, and she and i get along quite well. there was one point where two girls just like stuck their faces between ours for pictures... and i was demonstrating this, thus smacking my head and tristans together... causing laughs. and i took pictures of people on the sly... i love doing that. you have no clue how silly some people look in their natural facial expresseions and stuff... so friday was a good day. after lunch, we had a crazy fun game of soccer, guys on girls... eventually we all got too tired to play anymore... and thus our fun game ended. btw, lynette mocked how i run.. sighs. :D. so we all came home, tired and happy that we had such a great day. then saturday, we had another early rising day, for one of the orphan care centers had a party for all the kids. 300 parentless kids in total.
we all went, that is, morgy, jonno, lynette, rachel, sarah, gordon, tristan (again) mom and i. we got to the party to watch some small presentations put on by the various centers... and boy, those kids can sing!! after that, all the kids went outside and played games. rachel started painting faces, which soon turned into the kids just painting, and tristan got a green heart on her cheek (this comes in later). sarah played jump rope, gordon (known as "golden" by the guys...:D) played soccer... and im not sure what morgy did. after wandering around for no reason, tristan and i went inside to help set out all the food... 300 plates, suckers, fizzers, hot dogs and bags of chips. it took a while, but we got it done. there was ALOT of food. so then all the kids came to eat... and some sang. i joined in the singing after a while... and it was good to be able to sing really loud along with everyone else... its a good feeling. after lunch, i decided to let tristan paint on my face. note, i said tristan. we arrived at the face paint area, to find it run by two guys. one offered to fill in tristans heart, and i was waiting for her to get done, so she could paint me. then the other guy told me to sit, and he would do me. ok, cool i thought. so i sat down, and without asking what i would like done, the "artist" set to his task. he was like totally absorbed in his work, and started with blue. once his blue thing was done, he said to tristan "it looks nice eh?" and tristan, doubtfully said "...ya... it looks like a blue tree!!" at which the painter roared with laugher, gave me five, and continued painting. the then drew an "X" shape under the blue tree, and tristan later said, "at first it looked like a spade, then a blue tree, then he drew the X, and i didnt know what it was..." so i sat still, and let him paint. till of course, his face was like a centimenter away from me, then i jumped in surprise... its unnerving to have a guy like eyeballing you from the uncomfortable distance of a centimeter away... but he laughed, so i sighed in relief, kinda. but my uncomfort was growing, this guy was still painting my face, and it was getting to be a long time. i watched tristans face, and she was like wincing as he continued painting. after the blue tree and X, he continued to paint a red stripe on my nose to my forehead, red yellow and green dots all over my face, and red and blue around my mouth. i didnt know the extent of the damage done, but i knew it wasnt good, by the looks i was getting. he finally finished and i jumped up, wanting to examine my visage, and remove all damage done. so i ran to the bathroom with tristan, and rachel saw me, and took a picture. many people grinned. so i dashed into the bathrooms, looked at myself, and almost fainted. after the initial shock, i laughed. i looked soooooo funny!! like ronald macdonald, with hald a clown mouth, an x marsk the spot desing on one cheek, a red stripe on my nose, and randomly placed dots. i thus began scrubbing my face, removing most of the dots, the red stripe (after the paint was gone, i had a faint red tinge to my nose... great) but i couldnt bring myself to remove all the guys work, so i left the blue tree and x. thus, i discovered, i had just been the piece of canvas for one guys artistic impulses, and thus came away heavily painted on, and causing laughs. i wanted to get the guy back, but we left afore i could. it was funny now i think of it... gooood times. so that was about my whole weekend... i hope it was relatively amusing, what i wrote.
luv ya'll!!