Winter Washout

One week, it's hard to believe that's all there is left to October. It has been an uneventful month in which we've enjoyed the luxuries of living in a modern house complete with tv and internet while the Perkins family has been in the States. But tomorrow, it is back across the street, back to life with out these modern day luxuries. Sigh.

Since October has been a fairly uneventful month we thought we'd let the pictures do the talking for us...demonstrating a little bit of what Nicaragua in October is like.



But before we get to all of that, one exciting development for us has been watching our dear friend Luisa opening her own pulperia (Nica 7-11). Luisa has been a faithful woman in our church, the cook for all our teams, and owner of the consignment clothing store Northshore sends used clothing down regularly. She is a dear woman. A strong woman of faith who has demonstrated an incredible heart and joy even while her family has been hanging on by threads the last few years. Thanks to a micro-loan given out by the economics team in September she was able to start up a pulperia and we have seen a burdened lifted and an even greater smile upon her face.



Our friends Bryden and Trista Russell, from our B.C./Trinity Western days, stopped by Managua for a week as they backpack their way through Central America. It was awesome to have good friends to chill with each evening, playing cards, making dinner, and experiencing the Wii together. We also got to take Bryden to the hospital since he had some crazy intestinal bug attack him...that was probably in the top three most eventful things that happened to us this month...next to the lightening strike that hit the Perkins property frying their power invertor and swimming inside their house due to all the rain.





Finally, we thought we'd show the destructive and awesome power of Nicaraguan rains. The above pictures are a few examples of what we like to call "winter washout." The top pictures are what used to be the road we take to the beach. Now there is a ginormous hole in the road which will most like take them a year or two to fix. The bottom pictures is the road right before getting to the beach. Apparently the waterfalls above the road have a wee-bit more water than usual as it has spilled over the road. Also, we thought we'd share a video of what the road directly in front of the school becomes during all this rain.