Triathalon

NCA hosted the first ever triathalon last weekend. This was an event several of us have talked about for some time. It gets complicating to plan something like this here, but it finally happened. We had about 50 participants; mostly students and some adults. It was a mini triathalon: 200m swim, 10km bike, 5km run. The event brought out lots of families for the afternoon. It was a huge success! It was neat to see some of our not so athletic students persevering through the race and not being satisfied until they crossed the finish line.

I loaded these pictures in reverse order. So you can either scroll to the last picture and then go back up or just think of them in reverse order. Once again Carey and I participated in this event. The swimming portion of the race was the most intimidating for me. I actually swam a greater distance overall in the last month than I have the in last 10 years.

Derek coming in to the finish line.

Morgan coming in from her bike ride.

And they are off!!

First group getting ready to head out.

Visitors

Over Thanksgiving my brother came down for a week long visit. In the picture below we were hanging out and exploring a coffee farm in the mountains. We also participated in a bike trip for 2 days. I don't have any pictures of the two of us on the trip since Wayne was so far ahead of me. The bike trip was a fundraiser for the Luke Society in Nicaragua. There were about 30 participants. My roomates went on the trip as well. Here we are just before crossing a river. There were many of them to cross on the trip.
Here's one of the breaks about midway on the trip. The picture below is a "Where's Waldo" picture. There's something Christmasy in this photo, can you find it?

And, my other visitors for the month of November was a work team from Jarvis. Here we are at the edge of Volcan Masaya. It was fun to hang out with so many Canadians. I really enjoyed my time with all of you! Thank you for blessing Nicaragua with your visit.