Additional Photos from Dia Tres

Here are some more pictures from day three:

We went to PriceSmart, a warehouse club store like BJs or Costco to pick up food to bring to the orphange we were visiting, food for a family we were helping, and snacks for our VBS and a conference my mother will be doing with the teachers. The microbus (pictures of that soon) was being used, so we had to take th suzuki, which carries a good number of people, but has virtually no cargo space. We were prepared to carry things on our laps & stuff them under the seat, but my father and Bob are master packers, and made it all fit into the very back, which was only about a foot deep.

Bob decided to mimic the Nicas and carry the big bag of rice up two flights on his head.

Here's everything that was packed into the tiny back of the Suzuki:

A toy store, at I just thought was cute:

In the back of this truck is a homemade wheelchair: a lawn chair on some kind of metal cart, with bicycle wheels attached to it. Maybe not much to look at, but it is effective and made from available materials:

In Tent City, we talked to a woman who waas cooking up a giant pot on maize (local corn) in a cast iron pot over an open fire. I tried to get a photo of the pot on the fire, but missed the chance before she transfered the maize into two big bowls. She wanted me to take a picture of her stirring it:

This house was right across a side street from Tent City, which provided interesting juxtaposition:

This was just a cool tree, and a very cool house that I saw here. I have seen a number of very oddly-shaped trees around. The house is not at all typical of the houses in Managua, where most everything is built from cinder blocks with corrugated steel roofs.