So, our amazing trip photo award goes to Erica for catching this shot of a dog yawning and shaking its head at the same time. Really a nice dog, and nobody was harmed, but EEEK!

And I have a few catch-up photos from previous days (I've raided another camera's SIM card...). The first two clinic days, our lunches were provided by students at a local culinary school. They had some great veggie options, and fantastic juices to go with lunch. This was veggie lasagna and a really cool salad with edible flowers in it: 

 ... and for dessert, fresh strawberry sorbet. Fabuloso!

 No, our trip leader is never, ever silly while prepping patients for surgery. Never:

 Lots of things in this photo. First, someone finally caught Amanda in action on film, which should win another photo award. She's been a fantastic recovery nurse/tech/person all 3 days. Second, notice the literal PILE of puppies lying all around Alexandra (an ex-pat volunteer). There were a dozen puppy surgeries on day 2, and they mostly all got done at the same time, so after they were all stable and had their meds, there was a major puppy cuddling party:

 Woofie was very bad and got into someone else's Brahma beer:

 This picture is awesome because they painted a shark mouth on their boat. All the other boats were boring white, with just the name on the side. This one was cool:

 Woofie poses with some food from a street vendor (this is what I ate for dinner tonight). It's a tortilla with beets, cooked veg, cheese, and some awesome sauce. The drink is chocolate rice milk, served warm:

 Ok, so now that I've caught up, I can blog about today's clinic! The new building is about a fifteenth of the size of the other building, with less air circulation. So it was VERY WARM. Our recovery area was nicer though. We had some foam pads for dogs to lie on, and an upside-down table made a great puppy bin, so the little guys could crawl around without escaping. This is a shot of the building:

 Pretty much all day, we were in a fishbowl, surrounded by spectators. The locals were fascinated by surgery, and Stacy and Colleen put on a good show right by the windows. It isn't visible in the photo, but one of the panes of glass was broken, and at one point a spectator reached through to tap Stacy and ask if she could move over a little, as she was blocking his view of the surgery she was doing! Notice Woofie in the far right hand side of the photo, supervising from a safe vantage point, as usual:

 This was our "lobby" for the day, where owners waited with their pets until it was time for their surgery:

 Our youngest volunteer, and our youngest patients of the day. Super cute!

 Somehow, a couple of massage therapists turned up halfway through the day to offer their services to exhausted vets and staff. Boy were we grateful!

 Recovery, packed with dogs, as it was most of the day. We had to put leashes on all the dogs before they woke up so that we could control them after they woke up - not all the dogs were nice, and we didn't always know who would be safe to touch when awake. The orange collars tell us which dog is which, so that they can be matched up to paperwork and any medications that need to go home. The little brown and white dog (center) had a condition called pyometra (infection in the uterus). Normally, street dogs would not survive a pyo, but this lucky little girl was brought in to our clinic, spayed, and given antibiotics. Voila! No more uterus, no more infection!

 At the end of the day, when there were enough people to spare one as a window guard, we got to open the windows to cool the room off. Jason kept the kids from climbing through to see what we were doing.

 Whew! "The Machine" finally rests after a loooong day of surgery:

 Tom earned a sit-down at the end of the day as well. We had so many patients that we ran out of our normal anesthetic drugs, but Tom saved the day - he's familiar with using a different kind of anesthetic drug that was available, so he took over dosing the last few dogs so that they could have surgery. Also, kudos for the shirt - it says "It's hip to snip: Neuter Your Pet". That's sending the right message!

 Carol (Andrea's mom) was a trooper! She spent all three days making sure that all the surgeons had their surgical tools cleaned, sterilized, and organized. She's also fairly handy lugging equipment around. But I have to admit that this is a staged photo. I'm stabilizing the bin from behind. Looks pretty good though, huh?

 Leaning out of the water bus... anyone in the front seats got a great view, breeze, and just a fun ride, but the bumping from wave to wave made for a sore behind. And yes, I was dumb enough to sit in the front. Again:

 Jason hangs out with the kids at the boat dock one more time...

 Woofie sneaks some pina colada. As you can see, this one did not come in a flaming pineapple, but it was still pretty awesome!

 And after the pinas, hotel staff heated up the hot tub for us. Woofie hung out, but didn't get his feet wet:

 Look at us classy Washington ladies!

And that concludes Day 3. Total surgeries for three days of clinics: 174. Go Team Guatemala! We're talking about a reunion trip, to a new location, next year.