Rabies is a special feeling

In preparation to move overseas it has been advised that we get properly immunized. Ok, we want to be healthy so that sounds pretty sensible right? Here's the fun part "properly immunized" is just a nice way of saying "Hey Mike and Em, we are going to give you each ELEVEN shots in both arms two at a time and pump you full of every disease that you could possibly incur in the next two years!" Awesome.

Right now swimming around in our bodies are the following deadly diseases:
Hepatitis A/Hepatitis B cocktail
Japanese Encephalitis
Tetanus
Yellow Fever
Typhoid (I thought you only got that on the Oregon Trail)
Rabies - watch out that one's a bleeder.

The Dora the Explorer Band-Aid and the melted ice cream sandwich was not quite the consolation that we was hoping for

Poor little guy

We also were assigned the task of organizing some fun activities for the children after they get their shots. There are three different days that we have shots here to accommodate the different series of shots that we're given. The first day it wasn't so bad cause the kids didn't know what was coming. The parents hyped it up and got them all excited about the fun activities afterward and it was fine. The second week was a little trickier cause they all knew exactly what they were getting themselves into. We sent people into the clinic to make balloon animals hoping that the squeaking of the balloons would drown out the screams of the children being held down inside. I don't think it worked. Still a fun day. Tomorrow is our last clinic day - so we'll see how it goes

This is my cousin's son Owen - We're both pretty stoked about our balloon hats