Day 1 Nicaragua

Our group traveled until 4:00am to finally arrive at our hotel in Jinotega, Nicaragua, an area with a poor population although the region has some solid natural resources such as coffee and cacao (cocoa).

We came with a group of 10, and I brought my daughters Noelle and Maddie.

We started with a visit to La Finca, a farm where a mission school has been started.  Our goal was mainly to show our group and to love on the kids.

Visiting the kids in school.

Schoolhouse

Kitchen

Lesson time, so cute Maddie loved it

Soccer with the boys

Teaching the little girls a dance, they also painted their nails

Cute= duck, duck, ganso...(goose)

Flew some kites we got at Dollar Tree for a buck!  Fun is over back to school kids!

Hiking to the lake

Huge old swamp trees

Taking the mission-school kids home, 20 of us in the van 

One of the kid lives in this squat home along the road

Blogging on my phone so forgive quality issues.  We are trying to blog daily.