Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Earthquake Reflections 2-Trip down.

We left for our trip the day after my folks and the His Hands/Warsaw team left.

We packed up our personal belongings as well as some medical items-requested medications, a baby scale and some donations [baby packs] for the churches.

The house received a cleaning and straightening as the Baileys moved in to host the team and to keep the cat company. Chris accompanied us to the airport to pick up the 4 man team from Grant Michigan.
While we hoped to over lap with the team their delayed flight messed up that plan. We loaded into MAF's Kodiac and headed to Port-au-Prince. The waiting driver quickly loaded us up and drove us to Carl's house/Wesleyan guest house: enjoyed talking to Helen J. and Lowell A., had lunch, a short meeting about the medical clinic at Petit Goave, and waited.

Cory left us to join up with a Relief International team. Soon we hit the road after meeting up with 3 doctors from St. Louis going out to work at the Petit [Ti] Goave clinic as well.
Eli's thankful that Anna let him co-pilot.

A long day-being past dark when we bounced into the Ti Goave campus. A small tent became our home for the night.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

We have to get Eli a pair of aviator sunglasses. He looks like a natural in that seat. ;-)
Did he get to wear a David Clark Aviation headset? ;-)

The Bronkema Family... said...

Lookin' good Eli! Anna, you're a kind sister! =)

Kris Thede said...

Yes he wore a headset but don't know what kind.

Anna was kind especially as on the way back we had 7 people which means that we had to mostly sit with the heavier folks toward the front putting her in the back.

Next time she gets the front.