Greetings from Nicaragua!

I'm completely thrilled to death that I have internet access in my room here and can share pictures of our trip. Who would have thought?

We are one hour behind Bowling Green time, and right now it's 2:40 p.m. here. At 4:00 we are going to take all the medical bags and supplies to our worksite and check it out and at 6:00, we may go visit a congregation in Managua that works with the congregation we are visiting with often, as they are having a gospel meeting tonight.

It wasn't easy getting here, but relatively uneventful. All 23 of us and our 46 checked bags made it safely. Some minor shifting had to be done to some luggage at Nashville to even out the weights and stay under the 50 lb. limit, which resulted in me carrying a purse full of about 40 toothbrushes! At least if our luggage hadn't made it, we still would have had clean teeth!

We had to run from one end of Houston's airport to the other to catch our connecting flight, but we made and the closed the doors after our last "yellow shirt" boarded. We made it through customs fine. No one's luggage got searched or anything. God blessed us with answered prayers today for sure. There were some familiar faces at the airport, too. Jonas was there with some church family and Steve White drove from Tegucigalpa to see us. It's always nice to see Steve at an airport waiting with a big hug and a kiss on the cheek!

The Best Western where we are staying is directly across the street from the airport. It's a pretty place. Lots of gardens and flowers. The rooms are along long outdoor breezeways and it has a nice open air restaurant by a beautiful pool that will be calling my name soon. It's a nice warm 95 degrees and sunny. Most of grabbed a late lunch there just a little bit ago.

These pictures aren't that impressive since I was too busy carrying luggage to snap many (and Steve Simmons was snapping pictures right and left (I'll get his later.)

Everyone's doing well, but I think we will all sleep well tonight since some of us still haven't had any sleep. We left the church at 3 a.m.

Apparently this little one-legged bird has been here for sometime. Everyone remembered him from the last trip. When he wants food he sings and when he gets tired, he rests on his other little nub.

This is a volcano that was actually part of a chain of volcanos (Surely I would've heard about these if they were still active, right?) just before we landed in Managua. There were thousands and thousands of these houses everywhere all over Managua.Okay, I'll be allright here for the week. So much for trying to give up my Diet Coke addiction this week.

Love to you all. Miss you!