Well we are officially back in Nicaragua after a month in the states. I know some of you are thinking, your previous blog entry said we would be in the states for three weeks, what happened? Well...
Our trip started out with us missing our connecting flight from Miami to Denver, so we had to stay the night in Miami. Actually the plane left 55 minutes early, our flight from Managua got in 15 minutes late, our luggage was not checked all the way through and when we got to the United check in counter it was closed because the last flight of the day left. We had no US cell phone, no US change to make a call and the pay phone would not let me charge a collect call to the number I was dialing. Luckily, we got the 1-800 number for United reservations and were able to use the pay phone. So Seth spent an hour on the phone trying to get our flight schedule for the next day.
Meanwhile, I was using the internet trying to find a hotel nearby that had a free shuttle to the airport. This task was not difficult, but I had to pay $5 to use the airports wireless internet for 30 minutes...which is a rude awakening when you only make $70 a month. After Seth confirmed our flight to Denver he decided to check on our return flight. Yet again there was another change in our flights. The airline had canceled half of our flight, so we had to reschedule. The airlines must not fly as much as they used to because everything was booked up until June 29. We were supposed to return to Nicaragua the 23 of June, so we were able to stay an extra week. We were not upset since that meant an extra week with our families, but it meant we missed out on the Nicaragua MCC team spiritual retreat.
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Number 5 - Our long hike in the Poudre Canyon with Trail Boss
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