It's true. Joey turned 13 on April 7, 2009!! Joey celebrated by hosting a "Lord of the Rings" marathon in the Youth Room for a few of the guys on the ship. They started the first one at 1pm and finished up after 11pm! And at Joey's request, I made pizza for dinner and baked a chocolate cake with chocolate chips and chocolate icing. We even bought ice cream (Fan Ice from a local super market) to top it off. It was a "fun, Lord of the Rings-y" day, according to Joey. And a highlight for the guys was when they pulled the head off the breadman from our previous post. Poor breadman!
Joey and John have been working on scouting merit badges in their spare time. Here, John is having fun testing Joey's knowledge of First Aid. 
And below is a phot of Joey navigating an orienteering course that John mapped out for him in Cotonou. It may not be the typical Boy Scout orienteering course, but it's the environment we have to work in.
Joey's hope is to advance to the rank of First Class before he joins with his old troop for Boy Scout Camp at Camp Raven Knob in June. Yes, we have plans to go home for a visit in the summer!!
On another note...I had the opportunity to give blood to one of our patients last Friday. There was one fellow who lost a good deal of blood during his surgery. The blood bank is made up of crew members who are willing to donate on a moment's notice when the need arises. So when you get called, you go to the Ward where you hop onto an empty be and the lab technician pulls a nice unit from you which then goes directly to the patient. It's a pretty cool thing to know you are providing warm, life sustaining blood to someone in need! We were critically low of this patient's blood type, but when people heard of the need, more signed up to give.
Below you can see three crew members who were giving at the same time this past week to meet an urgent need while a patient was in surgery.
Jenny
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