Nicaragua Always Wins

To anyone who has been on an OrphaNetwork trip you are familiar with the phrase:

Nicaragua always wins.

It is a simple mantra that we live by here, and it means exactly what it says. Somehow, with all the planning and praying we do, Nicaragua always seems to win. This country doesn't like to play by rules, and our trips here are constantly affected by different twists of fate.

This week Nicaragua has already been winning, to the point of not even letting half of the group into the country. As soon as we got to the airport a huge storm started raging outside, and the television screen detailing arrivals and departures told us only a piece of the story. As the groups plane was about to land, the storm picked up and started tossing the plane around. Right as they were coming down for a landing they were mere feet from the runway and the pilot made a (possibly miraculous, but slightly annoying to us) decision to push the plane forward with all of its might and jet back into the air and to San Salvador for the night.

So 65 of our 100 kids had to wait an extra half a day to get to Nicaragua, but we are all here now and ready for a great week. Nicaragua- you always win, but we still love you.