This morning we woke up at 4am, partly to do last minute packing, partly to clean up, partly to have time to say our goodbyes to everyone. We showered and got dressed in the clothes we'd be leaving with. We borrowed the luggage scale that the Miller family (who lived in the room next to us) had brought down and found that we were at 50 pounds and 55 pounds. We originally wanted to leave a backpack in the suitcase so we only had 2 backpacks and 2 suitcases, but that looked like an impossibility. I got my suitcase back out and we put the bibles in the suitcases (which emptied out enough weight for the suitcases to be under 50 pounds each).
We started washing the bedding from the room so that we could leave the area clean. Alina went to the baby house to say her goodbyes, and Noah and I headed to the medium boys house to say our goodbyes. We walked with the medium boys to the 'comedor' where I said goodbye to many of the other children as well. Then we spent about 1/2 hour with the medium boys in the yard out front of the school. When the 1/2 hour was up, I wanted to head back to spend our last 1/2 hour with Michell before taking off. She was taking the goodbye rather hard, and when Alina came back from the baby house to give her and hug and spend a bit of time with her, she began to cry.
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| Our medium boys! |
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| Me and Michell |
Walter (a friend of Norman's) came to pick us up right at 8am. On the way to the Tegucigalpa airport, he laughed at all of the little Honduran expressions that Alina and Noah had picked up during the past month ('huela madre', 'picojuco', 'pucha', 'nambre', and 'que mas hizo'). I spent time reading all of the letters that the children had written me, and chatting with Walter. I had a pocket-full of letters to go through, that that was in ADDITION to all of the letters and drawings I had received during my month here (which I had already went through).
There was a slight traffic jam before getting to the airport, but we were WAY ahead of schedule, so it was all good. When we got to the airport, I had completely forgotten to get newspapers to bring back out of the newspaper stand where I normally shop before heading home...I give these to students at FVTC when they are the highest scorer on a test. I did make sure that Alina and Noah ate enough McDonald's before getting on the plane, because it would be a LONG time before they would get food again in Atlanta. Noah's stomach ended up getting upset just before and during the flight, and the 'smell' of his upset stomach made our (and probably the people around us too) noses/stomachs upset the entire ride to Atlanta!
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| Getting ready for our flight to Atlanta |
In Atlanta we had to go through customs and then get a shuttle to the Domestic terminals, then a shuttle to the hotel. When we arrived at the hotel it was around 7:30pm. We were really only a little hungry (dessert sounded good), so we asked the receptionist if there was a restaurant that would have good dessert around and she recommended a Ruby Tuesday about 5 blocks away. We walked there and had an appetizer and dessert. So yummy! When we got back to the hotel room, we watched a little bit of TV before turning the lights out to get some sleep.
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| Noah being his goofy self - no clue he was photo-bombed by the manager |
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