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Well, she's gone.

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wmccall:
Did you get a "I made it" or is she to remote and out of touch?

Chas:
We got a call on Thursday that the group made it to Managua. Then another call came in yesterday - Monday the 10th - to say that all were doing fine. No one was sick, everyone was in good spirits, not sleeping much, very humid, but doing fine.

Oh, and one other thing - the trip up the river was two hours in the drenching rain. Hmm. In a rain forest. Imagine.

Then another 40 mintue boat trip to "Bluefields," also in the drenching rain.

So far so good!

TD:
Wow. I hope my daughter (when she is older, as she is only 8), is willing to be so helpful to those less fortunate then she is.  I hope everything goes exceedingly well for your daughter and that she returns safely and successfully from her mission.  I would be frantic, I'm afraid, and would probably have only let her go if I went with her, but that's me, the very over-protective, ever suspicious Dad. Kudos to you and your philanthropist offspring.

Edited to explain that the smiley above should have been the number "eight", as she is eight years old. I dunno what happened, going out to the tub to mull this over with my Shiner. ;D

Chas:
Well, she got back to Managua. The hotel had free Internet, and we got a couple of emails: one to me and one to my wife. We had loaded up her inbox with several notes of encouragement and general love just in case.

One of the leaders had her appendix blow up on her - she gets to stay in the hospital in Managua for another couple of weeks! Pray against infection, if you don't mind.

The two-sentence notes told us that our 'kid' is very tired, and misses us. She was supposed to ride home in the van after her midnight arrival on Wednesday, but she asked us to come to the airport. How could we say no? We miss her too.

Brookenstein:
Glad to hear she is safe and had a good trip.  Sorry to hear about the person with the appendix.  I had mine out during the 1994 highschool state basketball championships in a tiny town in Eastern Oregon and was scared to death (not of the surgery... but the location and the dr's who did it) I can't imagine going through that in another country.

I wish everyone a safe return home.

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