Short connection in Atlanta but made it. Fort Lauderdale's floors are very hard (not worth it to us to haul all our luggage to a hotel) but we were only there for 5 hours before we checked in at 4am for our 6:45 flight. Thankful that American Airlines doesn't make you pay for your checked bags on international flights [in the past some airlines don't count the Caribbean as international]
The Port au Prince airport luggage claim, customes and pick was remarkably calm! A huge improvement over a couple years ago when we came in after a huricaine and the airport was chaotic!
Dropped off our luggage and the kids at Irvines and headed to Immigration for visas. Step one-less than 5 minutes, step 2 getting a cashiers check at the bank took Cory 1.5 hours mostly waiting and step 3 only took 30 minutes. Should be able to have our papers picked up this afternoon. Yea-our residential visas renewed for another year!
As Eli noted, parts of Port you can forget there was an earthquake, parts are returning tonormal, while other areas large buildings remain crumbled as they were when they fell.
Looks like we will be able to get most of our supplies on the MAF Cessna tomorrow. Will likely leave one bag here for us to pick back up in April. Nice to have some time with Joy Irvine and hear the news of LaGonave and the missionaries. Also met Greg Edmonds for the first time-new missionary to LaGonave [still waiting to met Heidi and the kids]
A big thank you to all who helped smooth the way by praying.
2 comments:
Really glad to see on facebook that you made it home safe and sound! Have a good week of settling back in to home. Let us know if anything is going on on campus for the earthquake anniversary, we were wondering! Praying for you guys.
Hi Big Kids-what a difference 1 year can make. I listened hard at church on Sunday and didn't catch anything about the quake. The young people are joining a church down the road for a program Wed. morning but don't know if it has to do with the quake. The little kids didn't have school yest. but high school did. We had a good day of school and are still settling in.
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