Sunday night dinner with the Habitat Paraguay team

On Sunday night after our arrival to Paraguay, we met up with the staff from the HPHPY (Habitat para la Humanidad Paraguay) at their office for a welcome dinner of traditional Paraguayan barbeque and dessert.

Here is the president of the board of the directors welcoming us, with Julie translating.

We were treated to the sweet sounds of traditional Paraguayan harp music (also a little Beatles and John Lennon thrown in there) while we ate.  

Fun Fact: The day before, our harp maestro performed in the attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest harp ensemble. It was confirmed by a Latin American Guinness judge to have broken the record with 420 harps.  

We had a great night getting to know about our Paraguayan partners families and sharing with them pictures of our families and stories of life in the USA.

It was a great night filled with incredible food, great conversations and a sense that this was indeed going to be an amazing experience.  Even though we were all quite physically exhausted from the travel, we left the dinner in great spirits and enthusiasm for the coming week.