August 1st - We´re here!

This morning I woke up at 3am to finish getting ready. I woke up Andrés about 4am in hopes to leave at 4:30, however we didn´t get on the road until 5am. With Bob sleeping in the passenger seat and Andrés sleeping in back, it was a long ride (especially through miles of fog). We arrived at O´Hare at 8am and realized fairly quickly that Andrés forgot both his gum (for the plane ride) and his camera - so no pictures this year folks.

Our day consisted of 3 flights: Chicago to Cincinnati, Cincinnati to Miami, and finally Miami to San Pedro Sula. We never really had to sit for too long (unlike last year where our layovers were fairly lengthy). During these flights, Andrés realized that he forgot quite a bit more than just his gum & camera, but he´ll probably update you on that. The most interesting flight was in Cincinnati where we got on to the runway & what I THOUGHT was our take-off was really super fast acceleration to get off the runway, because another plane was coming in for a landing!

Luis picked us up from the airport and drove us to an ATM and then to a Baleadas drive-thru to get some supper since the neighbor´s small restaurant up the street is not open on Sunday (and Andrés decided not to eat in Miami because he wanted the tacos that this guy makes). We got settled in and here I am typing this blog.

Tomorrow we´ll head on the earliest bus possible (leaves @ 4am) to Tegucigalpa...which is a 4 hour ride. From Tegus, we´ll catch another 2 hour bus to Guaimaca. I expect we´ll be in Guaimaca at Orphanage Emmanuel by sometime between noon & 3pm. Again, I´m not sure how often I will be able to update this blog, since my first priority is helping out at the orphanage, but today is just to let everyone know that we´ve arrived okay & are en route to the orphanage. And with that, I´ll need to say "good night" so that I can actually wake up tomorrow. ☺