Awesome Weekend!

So the team left on Friday afternoon and we spent the entire rest of the day doing laundry and cleaning the house. We still have to add everything the team left to our pharmacy and get that all organized, but it is a tremendous blessing to have all of these new drugs here now!

Friday night we discovered that you can download TV shows on ITunes and we watched the season finale for CSI - a show we became completely addicted to in the U.S. At least we'll be able to satisfy THAT craving!!

Saturday morning, we got up and headed to Canilla to visit the Fickers. They have a wonderful home and clinic set up there. They came down from St. Louis about 7 years ago and have a wealth of knowledge to share, as well as being a tremendous spiritual rock we can lean on.

We worked in their home clinic with them on Saturday, then went to visit some Mayan ruins in the area. There are these tremendous man-made hills built on the side of the mountain. It is believed that, when the conquistadors came, the Mayan rulers were afraid of the horses and had themselves buried in caverns underneath these mounds with tons of treasure. The one cave we explored had already been stripped of any bones or treasures, but it was still very neat.

Sunday, we went to clinic with the Fickers again in San Andreas. It was another amazing clinic day. Heidi got to see some more prenatal patients (it seems that every woman we see is pregnant!) and some pediatric cases. Leslie (the mom, a nurse), Hannah (the daughter, a pre-med student), and Adrian (a teacher from the US who is a good family friend) did a lot of teaching for Heidi, Matt, and Katie (a nurse who just moved down to work with the Fickers for a year). We're looking forward to maybe attending another clinic with them on Tuesday, WAY up in the mountains.

Now for the pics. The first picture is a buddy we found in our shower on Saturday morning. The second is a group of us in the Mayan cave we explored. The third is Katie, Heidi, and Leslie in clinic this morning. And the fourth is a picture of Hannah in the doorway of the clinic, greeting patients and assigning numbers.

That's all for now - we're taking tomorrow as a rest and recovery day - our first in three weeks!