here are the abc's of this year's nicaragua mission:

rancho Alpes, west of Leon, where we unwound friday night and saturday morning with a feast (or two), zip lines and...(see K).

a green Band-aid on carla's toe marks the spot where she was stung by a ray (or bitten by a crab, or cut by a bottle of tona, or attacked by a great white). (see O.)

another busy, busy Clinic. four full days, well over 200 patients served by 3 nurses (cindy, kevin and sue)...and

...Doctors -- we have two with us this year. doug, back for his second tour. "terrific" tim, his first with us. both are amazing to watch,  a blessing to us all and under rabid (right tim?) pressure from the team to return again next year.

Escuela -- where the classes are held. (theirs and the ones we detail in M.)

Fatigue sets in. saturday's bus ride back to managua, awfully quite.

Tortillas are a staple of the Nicaraguan diet, or at least are prepared regularly for mission trip teams. In this series of photos, Carla learns to make them from one of the ladies cooking for our team.

The heat source for cooking.

The ladies who cook lunch and dinner for our team every day.

More photos after the jump...