Arrival!

Hello everyone!

We are here safely in Managua and are enjoying every minute of it so far! We’ve been here for 3 days and it’s been fun to get settled in to our new house. We want to thank everyone for all of your prayers along the way; they’ve surely been felt by us. We are grateful for every one of you.

On Wednesday, our first full day here, Lois Orozco (a woman who we met back in March, originally from MI) took us out to shop for many different things we needed to get – food, household items, cell phones, etc. It was so nice to have someone we already knew take us around the city and show us places that will be helpful for us as we live here.

Yesterday, Thursday, we adventured out and took the bus through the city to find our school where we’ll begin taking Spanish classes. Once we got off the bus, it took us a little while to find the school but when we did, we set up our classes to begin this coming Monday!

Today, we’ve been spending more time setting up our house and, after waiting in line for an hour, we also got the bus cards we need for riding the city buses to and from school each day. We’ve also been enjoying the rain shower we’ve had for the past 2 hours J

Tomorrow, we don’t have much planned at all except to go meet our new puppy, Emre, who we’ll be bringing home, fingers crossed, next week!!!

Look for pictures to come soon!

Make it a great day,
Lauren & Mitch