Wednesday's Top Thirteen

Sometime today Team One passed from the first half of their trip to the second. Here, then, are the team's highlights (so far):

Emma: taking off on the boat at midnight. 
Don: watching Sierra touch a dolphin and fulfilling a lifelong dream.
Kate: playing with the kids and being on the water.
Deb: winding through a narrow green passage, surrounded by jungle this morning. Close to the trees, birds, everything.
Kim: Judy's comment, "Note to self and others - hand sanitizer tastes terrible." 
Don again (he's the leader, he can go again): seeing the team come together, bonding, laughing, working. Watching them as they (unconsciously) develop their "Amazon swagger". The spontaneous joy between our people and the Brazilians in Augusto's church was also spectacular, exactly what I'd hoped for.
Sierra: touching a boto. While playing frisbee with kids today, saw a little boy pick up the frisbee and give it to a little girl when it fell short. This was a beautiful act of selfless sharing.
Dave: seeing very happy children even though they all need dental work and deworming.
Jenn: creeping thru the jungle on a tiny boat, hunting caimen while listening to a billion frogs under a trillion stars, helping people, practicing medicine.
John:at our last village we did our work in a tiny, open air, Catholic church. That felt special, like it was a good use for the church.
Judy: really enjoyed it when a very old woman (89 years old) came back to show us her new glasses. She reportedly put them on, looked at her husband and said, "Wow, you're really ugly. You used to be handsome. "
John: loved being able to give a picture of a group of school kids to the school, as a permanent record of 1 day in July, 2013.
Tim: traveling around in a small boat with the vet, going house to house and vaccinating dogs and cats.

This important note about the vet: he is wearing a T-shirt with a big picture of a bat, a dog, and a boy on it. Around the picture is the phrase: Worldwide Day for Rabies (in Portuguese). This is hilarious because the word for rabies is the very same one as their word for "extreme anger". So,  it could say "Worldwide Day of Extreme Anger", which apparently has everyone in stitches.

Thank you teammates for cherishing these best moments and sharing them with us. Blessings.