Day 1 of my trip to Haiti.
Well its been a while since I have made a post so I think its time to keep you updated. I recently went on a short term missions trip to Haiti with my church (Red Rocks Church) out of Golden. I was so excited to return to Haiti after not going there for 2 1/2 years. We had a team of 15 going on the trip with members from 5 different churches involved. We had 9 going from our church alone and it also included our pastor Chad. I was excited to be going with Chad since I am new to the church and this is a great way to get to know people there. Well we left at 1 in the morning on Thursday Oct. 22. We took the redeye over to New York and had a 3 hour layover till we headed down to Haiti. Things were going well until we got to the ticket counter to check in to our flight and Dale realized he had left his passport on the plane in the seat pocket. Now I can’t get on him too hard since I left mine on a plane once returning from Haiti, but at least mine fell out of my pocket and I didn’t just leave it in the seat pocket. We were all very tired from packing 28 bags all 50 lbs each and flying all night.
Sara resting her head after the Red Eye to NY waiting for her luggage.
This is what 28 bags of supplies for the Haitians look like..
We landed in Haiti and the team was happy to have warm sunshine on them since when we left Denver it was 28 degrees and snowing. 
The airport in Haiti has come a long way in the 13 years I have been going to Haiti, inside is finally air conditioned and Pastor Ronald our liaison in Haiti gets us right through immigration and customs. 
After getting through the mayhem of the airport we load on a school bus and drive to our hotel. For me it was like coming home to visit some old friends. But for the first timers going on this trip it was a real eye opener. They have not seen anything like this before in their lives. 
I go back to when I went on my first missions trip to Haiti and all the sights and smells and thoughts going through my head. After talking to some of them after we arrived at the hotel I quickly saw the shock on most of them. 
We unpacked and sorted all the supplies for the upcoming week. I myself went with Ronald and friends and a teamate David Dennis to go buy supplies to build benches for a church in the mountains we were going to visit later in the week. After the usual haggling over prices we were able to buy some wood and iron and return to the hotel. We picked up the rest of the team and went to Pastor Ronald’s house for dinner, we were all starving since we didn’t eat since breakfast in NY. We shouldn’t complain since most haitians go days sometimes with out eating. We had a great meal of rice and beans and the usual fried plantains. It was nice to see all my friends there and have some good laughs together. 
We turned in early that night since all of us we running on only a few hours of sleep. We needed to get some sleep for a busy day at the school and orphanage tomorrow. I’ll have a lot more photos for the rest of the trip.
