Well, we made it! We are singing God’s praises tonight after an eventful day of traveling. God began answering prayers early in the morning when the rain that was threatening to wash us out as we were packing the trailer quickly moved on, making room for a beautiful pink sunrise as we pulled out of the 2RC parking lot. Our drive to Atlanta was as smooth as it could be and our check-in at the airport was supernaturally smooth! And I have to include that I had been dreading the flight due to sinus stuff and headaches and God answered prayer – no headaches!
Our entrance into Jamaica was, shall I say, a little more eventful. They wanted to know what our exact address was going to be in Montego Bay. I didn’t have that address because we were being picked up by our driver for the week! After some negotiating, we made it through immigration. Now it was on to customs. Half our team made it through the easy line, the other half got pulled out and sent to the far end of the room for an inspection! I should mention here that Bart Pederson was searched in Atlanta. His words: “He couldn’t have been more thorough!” Now Bart was in the inspection line again! We think there is a connection and that he is possibly marked on this trip!
We have settled into the Villa, gone swimming and killed time…about 3hrs…while the food team made a Mega Mart grocery run. We started to worry they were never coming back with my credit cards and cash! They finally made it back and we are now enjoying some homemade pizzas cooked by our house cook here. Her name is Minna and she is a sweet lady that is going to take care of us all week.
Thank you for your prayers! We head to the Nest early in the morning. More updates soon.
Here are some pictures from the day…
Here's Rob and Paxton! Thought it was appropriate to share their picture since Rob's camera got stolen out of his bag when we got here!
We were busting on first class flyers and then Shawn let me listen to Bryan Reegan's standup routine about flying! Hilarious!
All of our supplies, safely out of the airport...finally!
we bought some fruit from a local farmer lady who insisted she was charging us a good price! Uh...nope! Found out later she definitely ripped us off, but hey, no worries, right?!
Hey Cindy, our grocery bill was a little higher than expected! (that's Jamaican dollars)
our adventurous grocery team! Kellee Cronan, Steve Bowman, Rob Masengill, Sean Weimer, Dawn McGuire
here's the grocery receipt, it's a good 6 feet long
haha. Dad (Steve Bowman) would end up on grocery duty!! I’m sure that made him feel right at home. LOL
This was an experience of a lifetime! Our bill was 128,000 j…my brain just doesn’t do those kind of numbers.