More pictures

The first picture is us girls waiting out front of the Managua airport the day we arrived.  The 2nd picture is of Karl trying to collect water from an air conditioning unit to use in our sterilizer.  The 3rd picture is all of our team after our totes finally arrived after some of them were confiscated by customs.  It took RJ and Duane 25 hours to get from Managua to Puerto Cabezas after having problems with muddy roads from all the rain, a flat tire, coming up on trucks stuck in the mud which backed up all the vehicles for hours, losing power steering and sliding off the road and getting stuck, etc., etc.!  The 4th picture is of the baby girl who almost drowned by being swept into a water filled culvert during heavy rains.  She is the granddaughter of one of the Nicaraguan nurse who is one of our interpreters.  She is absolutely adorable!  The 5th picture was taken just seconds before this little girl aspirated on milk that her grandmother had given her the morning of surgery.  It was very scary since she could have died because of that.  I took this picture to show how she came to the OR in her little shoes with heels on them.  The 6th picture was taken at a beach.  The water was so warm.  The 7th picture is of the young man, Austin, who is setting up a small farm in Betania to teach the locals farming as a means to feed their families as well as a source of income.  He's doing some amazing work there.  That is where some of us worked last Monday when our work was done at the hospital.  The 8th & 9th pictures are the fisherman we saw at the beach who were fishing with nets.  They pulled the nets to shore only to have just a few small fish in them.  They loaded up all the netting and headed back out into the ocean.  Such hard work for potentially small rewards.  The 10th picture was taken at the Muskito market and the last picture is of some of the food we bought for the kids in the orphanage.   We have lots and lots of pictures and will combine them with the pictures from the California team.  Hope you have enjoyed them.    Carolyn