Mucho Caliente!

We arrived in Honduras Saturday! I'll let this blog serve as a little picture story of our trip so far!

-this is me with Nury and Luis when we arrived at the airport in San Pedro Sula. Nury is our AWESOME translator while we're here. I've learned so much from her...such a cool lady! Luis is the guy I coordinated everything with.

This is Rumbatan....we bought bag fulls of this fruit from ladies on our 3 hours drive to La Ceiba! Soooo yummy!!!

This is the beach front in La Ceiba....3 blocks from where we are staying. Apparently this is not a nice beach, but I was pretty impressd! Beautiful!!!!

We arrived and had dinner and then walked around town.....there was this huge stage set up and they were doing these cultural dances. After being there only a few minutes, they had half our team up on stage....more or less making fools of ourselves and our "gringo" moves. Yes, even me! Nury got in trouble for this one! =)

 

This may not be a good picture to show for it, but we went rafting (couldn't really keep my camera on us). We jumped off some pretty darn high cliffs too! We also went on a canopy tour ( zip line)....crossing off that fear of heights now. I'll save the mud bath pics for another time. =)

 

Our team this  morning with the local Habitat saff. It was so great meeting everyone who does similar things to me, but in Honduras! They were all awesome! Thanks Bernardo for putting up with me on our trip to buy more tools/supplies. Neither of us spoke well of the others language, but it worked out..and we got at least half of what was requested!
 
 

Here is a brick wall I helped build! Yes, we sifted sand and made our own cement! It was so different from anything we do in Charleston...which is obvious....anyways....just tired and rambling! It was some serious hard work!
 
Have I mentioned how hot it is?? Not sure if/when I've ever sweat so much!
 
Internet is slow, so more pics is not going to happen right now. More to come...more to be thankful for....much more!

Off we go

 

Here are 12 of the 15 going to Honduras! We leave this Saturday!

• Jeremy Rees (bottom left)...a bff from ATL that I've known since I was....13-ish? He did a tour in Honduras when he was in the army, so he'll be really helpful getting around and hopefully still remembers some Spanish.
• Next to him is Casey Davidson and Amanda Epps. They are bf/gf...Amanda's mom does my job at the Dorchester County Habitat affiliate. She just graduated from CofC so this trip is sort of a graduation present.
• Next to them is Meredith Gerber (her husband Frederick is in back row upper left). Meredith has volunteer with Charleston Habitat for a while...I remember meeting her first about a year ago. She works at CofC as a counselor. Her husband Frederick is from South Africa (love his accent!) and does construction as a trade/job here, so I'm sure he'll be great!
• Next to Meredith is Nancy Roskam. Her and her daughter Amanda will be coming on the trip. Amanda lives in CA so none of us have met her yet. Nancy and her husband Craig live in Charleston from about October - April every year. They are both retired and live the other part of the year in Vermont. They both volunteer with us regularly while in town!
• Up next to Frederick in the back row, is Kathryn and Keri Jennings (sisters). They're both pretty new to Habitat but came out a couple times to help build with our most recent construction project, and this was just another way they wanted to help out was going on this trip. They both seem super-sweet and I'm excited to get to know them more!
• Then we have Bob Day in the middle back. Bob I would consider a good friend. He volunteers on our construction site every Thursday! He always makes me laugh and I love hanging with him and our Thursday Crew every week!
• Then, Rae Hunter, my sweet dear friend....she is part of our Thursday Crew as well. We'll be sharing a room together in Honduras...can't wait! She's one of those people I know would do anything for you!
• Then me!
• And to my right is Cindy Helton. Her and her husband John (not pictured) are coming on Sunday....they couldn't leave Saturday with us but we'll rendezvous (sp?) and join us soon! John has volunteered with us in Charleston with the Coast Guard for years. We're glad he's bringing Cindy along for this trip too!
• The only other person is Bill Buchanan from Atlanta. He's a good friend of Bob Day. Back in the day, they apparently worked and traveled around Guatemala (and maybe Honduras too)....but that was a looooong time ago...they're old! ;)

I started to post this cheesy video of me saying thanks so all of you who have supported and been praying for our team....but after watching it again.....just felt a little ridiculous posting it!

 

We take off Saturday morning for Honduras! Please continue to pray the Lord will use us to bless Him and all those we come in contact with!

Thank you and I love you all!!!!!