At six o´clock on June 22, we loaded the charter bus with all 60 suitcases and started our trip to Chicago´s airport. Check-in went reasonably well at O´hare despite a few mix-ups on names (woops! but don´t worry, we all made it safely and soundly). We 
departed at 3 in the morning and arrived in Guatemala City around 630 am. We loaded a small van and then were told that we too were somehow suppose to fit with all our luggage! We squished in and had a LOT of quality bonding time. The back tire was somewhat flat due to our somewhat large amount of weight, so we held our breaths as we flew through the streets of the city. Once we arrived at the hotel, we had a quick but delicious breakfast. Then it was off to work sorting the supplies we brought for Safe Passage and those that we were taking with us to Retalhuleu. At 9:30 we all climbed onto a rickety old school bus and
traveled to the Guatemala City
dump. There was garbage everywhere in this gigantic wide open space of land. It was extremely eyeopening and unreal seeing so many people working there for a living. Freddie informed us that about 7Qs or $1 was made per person per day. From there we went to Safe Passage, a ministry developed to help the dump kids get off the street and receive an education. Some of the families visited with their sponser children while the rest of us learned more about its mission. We all rejoiced when we heard that a spiritual program was being added this fall. After thanking Freddie and s
aying adios to the children, we all boarded the bus and went back to the hotel. Back at the hotel some of the group had Pollo Campero (Guatemalan KFC!!) while others of us just crashed (and burned). All afternoon was devoted to regaining energy for the trip tomorrow and we all used it for some much n
eeded R&R. Supper time was Dominos Pizza in the hallways (can anyone say group bonding?) and then we packed into Diane and Estuardo´s room for devotions (again with the group bonding comment!!!). So far the trip is going great and we are all excited to start our work in Retalhuleu. (sorry for the spelling mistakes and bad grammer, but we only had about 15 minutes to figure out signing in on a spanish keyboard and then finally typing the entry. Thanks again for all your prayers and support!)
departed at 3 in the morning and arrived in Guatemala City around 630 am. We loaded a small van and then were told that we too were somehow suppose to fit with all our luggage! We squished in and had a LOT of quality bonding time. The back tire was somewhat flat due to our somewhat large amount of weight, so we held our breaths as we flew through the streets of the city. Once we arrived at the hotel, we had a quick but delicious breakfast. Then it was off to work sorting the supplies we brought for Safe Passage and those that we were taking with us to Retalhuleu. At 9:30 we all climbed onto a rickety old school bus and traveled to the Guatemala City dump. There was garbage everywhere in this gigantic wide open space of land. It was extremely eyeopening and unreal seeing so many people working there for a living. Freddie informed us that about 7Qs or $1 was made per person per day. From there we went to Safe Passage, a ministry developed to help the dump kids get off the street and receive an education. Some of the families visited with their sponser children while the rest of us learned more about its mission. We all rejoiced when we heard that a spiritual program was being added this fall. After thanking Freddie and saying adios to the children, we all boarded the bus and went back to the hotel. Back at the hotel some of the group had Pollo Campero (Guatemalan KFC!!) while others of us just crashed (and burned). All afternoon was devoted to regaining energy for the trip tomorrow and we all used it for some much needed R&R. Supper time was Dominos Pizza in the hallways (can anyone say group bonding?) and then we packed into Diane and Estuardo´s room for devotions (again with the group bonding comment!!!). So far the trip is going great and we are all excited to start our work in Retalhuleu. (sorry for the spelling mistakes and bad grammer, but we only had about 15 minutes to figure out signing in on a spanish keyboard and then finally typing the entry. Thanks again for all your prayers and support!)
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