Lisa: Day One--We arrived in Belize City safe and sound...no one's luggage was missing and we didn't get lost or anything. The flight from Houston to Belize City took about two hours. Once we arrived Joel, Damaris and Brian, the wonderful folks from the mission picked us up and took out to eat and then gave us a brief tour of Belmopan. One of our first visits was to the swinging bridge which was in one word AMAZING! Below the bridge ran the Mopan river which looked a tad scary...current was very fast and the river was a long ways away from the bridge. One of the most intimidating parts of the bridge was the distance between the slats and the fact that it was missing some of the side railing...oh and did I mention it was a SWINGING bridge, so it wasn't very stable and having a little boy (Brian) run across it while you're trying not to fall through the slats was pretty nerve racking. Any who, while on the bridge we had the wonderful opportunity of seeing some of natures most beautiful creatures including some parrots and two howler monkeys! Oh and a tarantula too!! After that we finally went back to Uriah, the compound (mission) were we're stationed for the week...we set up our so cool mosquitoes nets and went to sleep!
Day two: After a somewhat eventful Saturday... I woke up at the crack of dawn (or at least it seemed that way) and decided to shower and get ready for the day. We are very fortunate to have a great cook, Yvette...she cooks the best food ever...we had some Jacks that are something like fried bread and are wonderfully delicious. After that we had adult Sunday school and got the opportunity to meet some of the Belizean locals...they were are very nice and happy to have us here. And since we cannot have a day without an adventure we were taken horseback riding that's not the coolest part of all...we went through the jungle...we got to see some amazing sights and heard some pretty cool sounds... this was all great up until we got to the dreaded mud slide and my horse Bonjo freaked and sort of rammed my leg into a tree and then caught his head on a dry, thorny vine and well being the animal lover that I am I grabbed the vine and stuck my fingers (which are still hurting today). Well, finally one of the horse pros came and saved me and my horse and finally we went down the mud slide and all was fine and dandy. Needless to say, we had an action filled Sunday...we ended or day with an evening church service and a wonderful Yvette dinner. By the end of the day we were dead tired and slept through the night.
Day three: So this morning we woke up to the wonderful sound of rain...and again to a wonderful breakfast...pancakes with homemade syrup, papaya and watermelon, and of course a cup of coffee. Today was the first day we held clinic and we saw a good number of patients with a variety of conditions...it was pretty awesome!!!! One lady came in with a lesion on her leg that looked pretty painful...so we got to clean it and then numbed it Lidocaine and then Mary Shannon drained it. Pretty cool stuff...we took a break at noon for a quick bite and then went back...to reward our hard work we went to Spanish Lookout, a Mennonite village for some delicious ice cream...it was deliciosa! Any who, I have people wanting to use the Internet so I guess I will quit being a hog... I will come back on here and give another update soon.
Signing off...Lisa
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