After a long, hot week of hard work and focus on the kids, the team at Dulce Refugio blessed us with an afternoon to decompress from the intensity of our time here. We piled into the vans and drove about two hours to Guanajuato, a historic town with strong European influences nestled in a valley between the mountains. We ate lunch, learned a bit about the town, and then walked down 275 steps to the town below. We had about four hours to explore the town before piling back into the vans and heading back to Aguascalientes for dinner. The […]

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Dulce Refugio was blessed with an offer of significantly discounted tickets to a local waterpark, so today we were able to bring the kids for a rare treat. The shallow pool was filled with small slides and fountains that offered a great spot for the smaller kids to play. We also found a deeper pool with a volleyball net and plenty of room to horse around for the older kids. The park also had two big waterslides and a zipline. As we did at the park earlier this week, each of us paired up with two kids to supervise and […]

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With each day that passes, we find ourselves dragging into the breakfast room a little more slowly and a little more banged up. I can think of nothing more tempting than a breakfast of Advil and coffee. Busy schedule today! We planned another short concrete pour to get a couple more beams completed. We also had several projects underway that needed to be wrapped up, including the grates for the windows on the girls’ dorm, and the trenches for the new irrigation system for the soccer field. Another project we’ve been working on is reinforcing the drawers in each of […]

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