The road home

We woke with the dawn and the mosquitoes…everyone packed up and pulled out between 6:00 and 6:30 a.m. with the Schlatters and Commorfords in the lead. 

Day 5 – Carly, Connor and Tyler

For work today we washed windows and tables.

Day Four — Shelle, Andrew, JT Blog

Worship: Our worship tonight started with the idea that we all have had and continue to have different identities.

Day Three — Ben Giguere and Kelsey Wehr

The mission trip, up until now, has been quite an experience – it has known no shortage of exciting events and inspirational moments.

The Road Home

It´s Sunday morning and we´re having breakfast at CEPAD before heading out to the airport to fly home. What an amazing week this has been. There are many more stories to tell and photos to post, so please check back throughout the week for more on our wonderful adventure.

Countdown to travel

We leave bright and early tomorrow morning for Nicaragua! I am riding to the airport with Carla and Nancy Lear (and perhaps Lance Jesse too) and my instructions are to arrive at Carla’s home around 3:45 a.m.!! Yow. Our flight leaves at straight up 6 a.m., but we’ll be on the ground in Nicaragua by early afternoon.

I’m posting from home today, where I’ve spent the day getting everything ready to go. I took photos of my nearly 100 pounds of luggage, but I can’t figure out how to post them (the Mac is great, Glen, but I can’t figure out how to use it!) , so you’ll just have to use your imaginations. Rest assured, it’s a lot of stuff. Two enormous bags plus a backpack. Yikes. With this much stuff, I could practically move to Nicaragua.

The most interesting thing I packed today was snacks. Granola bars, cashews, M&Ms, crackers and peanut butter packets, and cheese sticks. And, because I am impulsive, two Snickers bars which I couldn’t resist going through the checkout line at the grocery. I felt a bit like I did back when I was 9 or so and packing for a Girl Scout campout (which, incidentally, is probably the last time I really “roughed” it). But we’ve been told to expect to eat rice and beans, followed by beans and rice, for practically every meal while we’re in Guadalupe, so the supplementary snacks could help save our sanity from a culinary perspective.

The other thing that struck me as interesting today was pulling together all of my electronic paraphenalia. Digital camera, extra camera card, cord for uploading photos, digital video camera with two cords, iPod and cell phone. Clearly not all of this stuff is necessary, but as I’m intending to document the trip from as many angles as possible, I’m taking it all. Everything is charged, loaded and ready to go.

Keep us in your thoughts and prayers tomorrow and all week as we undertake this amazing journey. The next time you hear from us, we should be in country!

And if you’ll indulge me a little personal communication: Mom, it’s definitely too late to veto now!

Wish us luck!