SATURDAY, MARCH 13th
The team arrived safely in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic after a foggy morning delayed our departure from New York's JFK Airport for about an hour and a half. At the suggestion of Woodsie and Gary, the two contacts that met us (most warmly, by the way) upon our arrival, we are staying in Santo Domingo tonight at a small but quaint hotel called The Green House. The hotel is everything you probably imagine a sleepy hotel deep in the maze of streets that make up the downtown (or outskirts, for all we know) of Santo Domingo to be: Simple, quiet, the movie “Grumpy Old Men” dubbed into Spanish on the old TV in the lobby, overhead fans purring everywhere. We rented two rooms (one for Noemia and one for the three boys, Pastor Al, Sagith, and Doug) and ate a refreshingly well-appointed fried chicken, rice and beans, and fried plantains dinner before heading to our rooms to get as much rest as possible in preparation for a 5 a.m. departure tomorrow. We hope to make it to Port-au-Prince by noon or earlier and quickly head out to at least one camp to participate in, or possibly lead, a worship service. Spirits are high, we are thankful for a safe trip so far, and we are all most anxious to hit the ground running tomorrow. God bless to all.
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