We. Love. Visitors.

June—The month of visitors! So after all was said and done with Kyle’s hospital stay. We had a solid line-up of visitors for June. While some plans had to change due to the hospital stay, we were still able to do most of what we had hoped to do!

First up, Brittany and Luke! Our good friends from Indiana. They just wrapped up their 2 year Peace Corps term in Costa Rica and were doing some traveling and they made Nicaragua one of their destinations. We were so excited to see them and show them our lives here in San Nicolas, after we had visited them in Costa Rica and experienced a small part of their lives there. They were able to travel to Ometepe solo while we wrapped up a few doctors appointments for Kyle and then we met up for some time in San Nicolas, and then together we traveled Leon for some volcano boarding, church tours and good food! :) Thanks for visiting Britt and Luke! We always appreciate your perspectives on cross-cultural living and volunteer work and really appreciate your friendship and support, always! Come back soon!

B+L helped me teach a short English lesson in the Quebrada de Agua primary school. They kids are still asking when you are coming back :) “La otra rubia y Lucas” jaja!”"

Helping out with some Limbo during gym class.

We watched a beautiful sunset from the Mirador above San Nicolas.

Volcano boarding (sledding) on Cerro Negro. Unfortunately, Kyle couldn’t join because of his ankle and knee. While we didn’t have the top speeds in the group, we still had a lot of fun. We won’t say who had the tops speed coming down between us three….(it was the ladies!)

On top of the cathedral in Leon

Thanks for visiting, Friends! :D

Our second visitor in June was, Beatty from Sarasota, Florida. Beatty and his church started developing a relationship with the town of San Nicolas through World Vision (definitely check out the World Vision child sponsorship program—I have seen the advantages of this program first hand with our students and definitely believe in the program and where the money goes to help those students who need it! Plus one of our adult English students works at World Vision Nicaragua and he is super passionate about his job). Eventually, Beatty stumbled upon Davie and Sarah’s Blog when they were living here in San Nicolas, which eventually led to our blog :) Beatty and his church group have been supporting our work here through prayers and email/snail mail check-ins! We have appreciated getting know Beatty through email, and recently he said he was making a quick trip to Nicaragua. So we opened our doors to him for the afternoon and showed him what we are doing in San Nicolas. It was great to meet him en vivo. We really appreciate his support of us and of this community! Thanks for visiting, Beatty. We look forward to when more of your community can come visit! We’ll be here :) We don’t have any pictures with Beatty, but he sent us this picture of Kyle and I at the high school.

Our Third round of visitors came at the end of June when Kyle’s parents came down to spend some time in San Nicolas with us, but also to travel with us as we had a semester vacation from our school duties. We traveled with them for about a week and a half so I will dedicate a separate blog to our time with them.

It’s always so great to have visitors come see what we are doing here in San Nicolas. Especially as the day-to-day can begin to feel pretty routine, it’s great to see some renewed excitement through new eyes. Even the realization that we live in one of the most beautiful places in the world can slip our minds, until we have some visitors who remind us that we get to call this beautiful valley our home.

Much Love.