Our Time in Albania in Numbers

33 -- the number of days we've been in Albania

19 -- the number of nights we've stayed in a hotel

0 -- the amount of malaria medications available in this country (by the way 90 is the number of bottles of tonic water you would have to drink in one day to get the amount of quinine in one full doseage of malaria medicine. Nathan's record: 3!)

1 -- Amazing God

2 -- the number of hot showers I've had at our hotel

3 -- the number of times we've been to the pharmacy in the same number of days

4 -- the size of our family now

5 -- the number of times we've driven the beautiful mountain road to Elbasan

6 -- the number of Sisters of Charity at David Reni's orphanage

7 -- the number of caregivers employed there too

8 -- David Reni's age in months when we first saw his photo and learned about him

9 -- years ago Nathan made his first trip to Albania and this is Cydil's 9th visit to this country

10 -- the number of states that have not visited this blog this month (Where are you ND, WY, HI, AK, RI, DE, ID, MT, NV or UT?)

880 -- the number of unique visitors to this blog in the month of July --THANKS!-- obviously more folks than just Aunt Ruth are visiting, and that's more friends than we have on Facebook!

3, 570 -- visits to this blog this month (this number may be inflated by Aunt Ruth (we love you, Aunt Ruth!))