Well, I tried to post on the last day of our camp in Nicaragua, but we lost power and my half-way-written post disappeared. So... I will now post a general follow-up. 17 months ago, we made our first family trip to Nicaragua. It was mostly a scouting trip, to see how we might structure a group trip … [Read more...]

Yesterday the kids arrived just after 11am, with a boatload of enthusiam and even bigger smiles! We split them into teams (red, green, blue, and yellow), then held our first chaple time. All of the campers participated in singing (which drowned out our out-of-tune, mispronounced Spanish!) and loved … [Read more...]

So today we spent some time getting ready for the campers to arrive tomorrow. We also painted the latrine (a bright sunny yellow!) and took plenty of time to swim in the lake. I think everyone felt much better upon waking up this morning. The sun rises early here (BEFORE 5am!) which means we do … [Read more...]

Well, we are here!!! After 2 airplane rides. and a long bus ride, we have arrived. We went up to a volcano crater on our way here to the camp. Very cool, but very hard to breathe! We are all exhausted due to very little sleep. We had leave for the airport at 3 am. The teens were out at the movies, … [Read more...]

Well... we leave the church parking lot at 3:30am very early Wednesday morning to travel to DC for our flight to Managua. There is so much to do before then, that we can hardly let ourselves think *too* much about the trip yet. We've all agreed to let out a collective sigh upon the plane's take-off, … [Read more...]