Mission Trip - DAY SEVEN

WOW - I forgot how good it felt at the Mission House to sleep in air conditioning!!  I slept like a log! Breakfast was great - and I have to smile at the toast they served - it was lightly toasted and then left to dry I guess - Jaime called it crouton toast and I agreed that's what it tasted like!!

After morning worship service, we headed out in 2 busloads to go to the market - some of our translators joined us (they had went to their homes in Managua on Thursday night and then came back to the Mission House Friday morning).  It was one of those "enclosed" markets where everything is jam packed under a huge roof and the walkways were like mazes - rows and rows and rows of shops and it was easy to get lost!!

Unfortunately Antonio was grabbed by another person so didn't get to go with us - another guy came up and we assumed he was one of our translators so started walking with us and showing us things - it wasn't until a little later that we realized he was NOT one of ours...............so we found one that we knew although the other guy stuck with us during the shopping.  We didn't need a lot of things and soon found what we wanted and then headed out of that place - it was almost claustrophobic in there!!

Our bus headed to the active volcano!!  A very neat thing to see although we were so excited when we saw these steps that we thought we could climb, but couldn't as they were unsafe!!

Of course we couldn't see down into the volcano as it was spitting out so much smoke!!

One thing to check off my bucket list - I've been to a volcano!!

We met the other busload of people at Narcy's for a chicken lunch - it was very good and filling!!  Then our bus headed to the zip line while the other bus headed to the lake for a boat ride!!

Jaime and Rayna had never been zip lining so were quite excited!!

The first station had this saying that we all smiled at while we received our instructions!!

We all received heavy gloves to wear as this type of zip line didn't have the automatic brakes at the end and you had to slow yourself down if you were coming in too fast by pulling down on the wire!  It wasn't hard to do at all!

Just as soon as we got to the 2nd station, it started to rain - nothing like a little rain in a tropical jungle - it was awesome!!!  But did make for some slick spots on these bridges!!

I sure wanted to take more pictures of Rayna as she was up ahead of Jaime and I but trying to hold onto your gloves, onto the rails and then pull a camera out and take a picture was a little harder than I thought it would be!!  I feel lucky I got these!!

The bridges were a little scary in spots but the zip lining was awesome!!  We all had a ball!!

This cute dog found Rayna after we were done - she wanted to pet every dog we saw but most of them were pretty mangy looking - this one looked just fine!!

We had a super fun day with everyone but were tired after getting back to the Mission House - after showering and repacking once again, we had a great sweet pork loin dinner and then it was off to bed for an early wake up call!!  And so ended DAY SEVEN - To be Cont'd..............