We owe this night to Kristee. She had done it before and really wanted us to experience it and I'm so glad she did. All of us adults went and took the older kids and left the younger ones with my mom and dad. We drove up to Salt Lake to this restaurant that gives a ton of their tortillas and rice and beans away to the homeless. All they ask is for people to volunteer to put them together and then take them around. So we start by scooping up the rice and beans and rolling a TON of burritos together. Then we wrapped those and put them all in these huge bags. From there they gave us a certain "route" they wanted us to take them. We were supposed to split up...but downtown Salt Lake at night in the homeless areas isn't really a place wanted to not be together for. We had a lot of really neat experiences handing out these warm burritos. A lot of "God Bless you," and "This made my whole day, God does listen to me" and comments like that. It was unbelievable and truly heart-breaking to see how some of these people live. There was no doubt drugs and other stuff going on as people kept yelling "kids on the block" surely so people would put there stuff away. The thing was it was absolutely FREEZING that night. Snow all over on the ground and we were all bundled up in coats etc. I was so cold just walking around for an hour. My mind can't comprehend all of them sleeping out on the streets with no shelter, some just had tarps over their bodies. I felt so guilty coming home to this big beautiful and WARM home. Definitely felt blessed. What a great learning and growing experience for the kids. It'll definitely be something we do more often then just once a year. Big fans of the Burrito Project.
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