The Travelling Olams: Back to Santiago : Hero´s 3rd Birthday

So we got back to Santiago on the Friday evening 6th Nov and managed to get the bus to drop us off near to Quilicura in the north of the city, within a reasonable taxi fare of the Kings. Was like coming home in a way as we had stayed with the Kings before heading off back in August on our tour of Chile and Argentina. We joined the Kings family on Saturday to ride the public transport system all the way across town to join in the cluster reflection meeting. Was good to see friends we had made from our first visit to Santiago and to see how things had gone over the 3 month cycle and how activities were evolving for the next one.
The next day Sunday 8th November was Hero´s 3rd birthday!
We didn´t quite get up for the 5:13 am vigil of her actual birth, but mid morning had a scrumptious pancake breakfast and opening of the prezzies ceremony. It was the first birthday that Hero actually sort of understood, and she would proudly wag 3 fingers at who ever asked her how old she was. We succumbed to her evident preference for all things pink and found some pretty dresses and a fabulous hand-crafted "princess" tiara.

We then hopped on the 307 bus into town and went over to see two of Hero´s buddies from our first stint in Santiago, Layli and Maryam Masrour. Their parents Tiago and Vanda (and lil sis Chloe) generously took us on a picnic trip up to a little "farm animal" theme park at the foot of the Cordillera. It turned out that the park is located 10 minutes away from the future Bahaí House of Worship site, so we saved some of the celebrations for there. Tiago is intimately involved in the Temple project and was able to take us for a visit of the actual location where the beautiful temple is soon to be built. What a site!