I went to a conference and this band from Uruguay played the funniest song that I’ve ever heard…it’s all about warm bread and chocolate, and it was stuck in our head for the entire conference. The best part of the song was the dance.

The boys got a new ride now that there are two of them. Here’s a quick video.

It sort of reminds me of this video we made for Nathan.

While I was in Cuba, I went to a monument of one of the great battles in the history of the revolution. Watch the video of the Santa Clara Train Battle.

You can read about it here, but here’s the video of baby #2 (Benjamin).

It took him a while to get brave enough to hold a sparkler for himself, but he had fun when he finally did.

Here’s a quick interview with one of the students from our program. He just graduated with his Master’s degree in youth ministry, and he works with middle school students in his church.

We got a “Air Hogs” RC plane on sale at Target. It worked great. This is one of the first flights. It’s not the greatest video, but it was fun.

It crashed later today. I’ve got to try to fix the tail. Hope I can get it to work again.

In an open courtyard on a normally quiet street in Santa Clara, Cuba, the young people line up to enter what is called “Mejunje”, literally translated concoction.

El Mejunje is a club of sorts, where you pay 2 pesos (about a US dime) to get in and hang out listening to loud music blasted over not so state of the art sound equipment. It’s called Mejunje because every night is a different genre of music appealing to a different sub-culture of young people.

The interesting thing about our visit to Mejunje on “rock night” was that one of the bands playing that night was from a church in the center of town. The band has been invited a few times by the operators of the club, which is a government based program that gives young people a place to hang out with their friends without causing too much trouble.

But this is no ordinary church group. They weren’t playing songs out of the hymnal or singing “Kum-Bi-Ya”. They were there to offer hope to the audience, with driving guitars and strong lyrics talking about the hope that the band members have found in Jesus. As we left the Mejunje that night, we saw the church band going back into the club to hang out with the young people and get to know them better. They really want to help the young people of their community.

(Video on Blip)

We took a quick trip to Cuernavaca this week. Here’s some video of Cuernavaca, Mexico.

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