Yawn, yawn, yawn. As we are falling asleep here in the dark, we are trying to recap our busy day. We started off again with a delicious breakfast of pancakes, papaya, pineapple and watermelon.

Off to the work site with ¾ of our crew. We began by moving over 150 blocks from one end of the property to the other..whew! Began digging the footers for the kitchen and started the latrine (bathroom for those of you that need to know). We set the cornerstones and the devotion this evening happened to be about our spiritual cornerstone. Too cool!

The other ¼ of our team went to a public clinic in the community to perform eye exams. They saw over 30 patients and were a blessing to many! The team was led by Dr. Steve Bowser and assisted by Tanya, Rachel, Sheri and Mark. Steve is going to make an optometrist assistant out of them yet! We gave out glasses to the majority of the patients and have prescriptions glasses to make for the rest of them. We all met back for lunch. We had beef surprise gravy over the rice. (did anyone see the stray dog around here?) We were blessed with pineapple and watermelon. We then repeated the mission work again. The eye team moved to the campus here at El Ayudante and began exams for the children here. We completed 13 exams and then was able to get back, scrubbed the dirt and germs off and waited for our gross construction team to return.

We all had a wonderful dinner of mystery meat, chicken and beans on fresh homemade tortillas. We also had pineapple and watermelon. After more scrubbing and clean up of our bodies, we surprised Tanya with an early birthday cake (Nicaraguan style that was AWESOME!) and then she took her swat at a tradition of piñata!! Yes, she swung at that swinging piñata for hours…well it seemed like hours she stunk!! She had a blast and was very surprised!

We are off to bed since we are deliriously tired.

Quotes for the day:

Sheri: “I am sitting over here picking my nose, cleaning out my air filter.”

Russ: “He needs some wedges.”

Joe (our interpreter) “Happy wife, happy life. From: Anna 4:15.”

Brett: “Now we know what we’ve been looking for!”

Troy: “Now that gives a new meaning to digging yourself a hole!”