Yesterday was a day PACKED with airports and airplanes. We left for Detroit at 4:15 and arrived here at the hotel at about 9 PM after a brief layover in Atlanta and a 3 hour delay in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. I WAS EXHAUSTED when I finally got into bed!
It is just after 6 AM here and it is BROAD DAYLIGHT (and has been for over an hour). I won't bore you with rediculous details, but here area few things I observed yesterday... some relevant, some... well, not so much.
- I am thankful that we only have 2 flights to get here! The flight from Detroit to Atlanta is on a TINY little plane, but it was a very smooth flight (I think our group will fill a third of the flight). The leg from Atlanta to Honduras is about 3 hours and 20 minutes - about an hour less than George and I waited in San Pedro for our 40 minute flight to Le Ceiba. when we come with students, we will meet a bus driver and he will take our group on a 3 hour bus ride through the country to La Ceiba.
- The Water. I have been terrified that I would accidentally drink the water, but the people here have been very helpful to serve or offer bottled water to drink. No signs of Montezuma's revenge yet (I promise to blog every detail if anything changes - kidding :-)
- Speak the Language. One thing that struck me yesterday was on our short flight to La Ceiba. We borded this extremely old plane that looked like something out of Indiana Jones (that one was for moms and dads). While we were flying, the captain turned off the "fasten seatbelts" sign for a while. Then, suddenly he truned it back on again. Now, I hadn't moved an inch (there wasn't much room or anything to do) but the flight attendant came on with an announcement that I didn't understand - - it was in Spanish. Now, here I am in an old plane flying over the Honduran jungle with what is potentially life saving information being given to me IN A LANGUAGE I DON'T UNDERSTAND! After I got over the need to vomit, I thought about our witness to those outside of a relationship with Christ... how often do we talk to them about the life saving truth that Jesus paid the penalty for their sin in a language they don't understand... of worse yet, we turn the seatbelt sign on and don't say a word. Just a thought - you should expect to hear more about that one later :-)
Well, we have a long day of touring the sites where we will be working, sleeping and eating (and even a couple where we will be playing). I am looking forward to posting some of what we are doing... keep checking back! In the meantime, here are some pictures from yesterday's travel:
This is what I look like after I found the camera that I left on the plane...
45 minutes in the line for immigration into Honduras - I am glad that I was able to experince this first so that I can ensure that all of our group handles this correctly... btw - they don't like to joke around.
See what I mean - - I think that Dr. Jones flew in the one when he was looking for the Arc!
It doesn't even begin to do it justice, but this is the Honduran countryside from the plane on the way to Le Ceiba... it was breathtaking (I am trying to convince myself that was the reason George was green on the way there :-)
More tonight... pray for us - this is an entirely different world!
Jeremy
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Hey guys - we're following you! As best we can, between packing and filling out final adoption paperwork. :) So glad you found your camera! I'm sure George will want to scrapbook this trip. Praying for you!!
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