We made it!

I'm sitting under a slightly cloudy sky, but there are still quite a few stars visible from the roof of Walls Guest House. Looking up at the stars actually gave me a comforting thought: while the team was noticing Orion's Belt, I realized I had just noticed the same constellation this past weekend at the retreat. And that made me think, even though we're far from home, we could all be looking at the same stars - our team and our friends and family. Just more glory of God.

At this point, many people are probably wondering how our flights went. We woke up bright and early at about 4:50am, and after getting into our taxis, arrived at American Airlines by about 5:45am. We were told we should be three hours early, but by the time we had weighed the luggage, gone through customs etc it was only 7am, and our flight was set to leave at 9.

That flight was on time, and we arrived at Miami in time for lunch, and boarded our flight to Port Au Prince. That flight however was about an hour and ten minutes delayed due to a very full flight. They had overbooked the flight by four people, and were having trouble with the weight of the luggage (which may have had something to do with the 700 pounds or so we were bringing haha). Once we finally headed out, we arrived in Haiti around 5pm.

I must say, for all the warnings the team had given me about what to expect, it was nowhere near as scary when we left the airport. There weren't many Haitian people waiting to take our luggage, and we didn't have children running up to us for money. They all agreed it was a bit different from last year's arrival. When Big Boss had gotten our luggage in the van, we were off to Walls Guest House, arriving at about 6:15pm. From there the team was shown our accomodations, ate dinner, had a chance to go swimming, and just explored the house.

We had a moment of excitement when Cam ran up the stairs to tell us he had seen a rat. We sent him back down to inspect again, and he came back with the news that it was actually just a giant cockroach. Excited to see my first huge Haitian cockroach I followed him, only to find out that his definition of 'huge' was a cockroach of about an inch. Oh well, with any luck, that's the biggest I'll run into! Good night from Haiti!