Found again… We’re flying home - I like road side food!
19 September 2007Hi everyone, we are in the Port-au-Prince Airport and everything is fine. It’s about 8:15, we have an hour until boarding, and departure will be at 9:40. We don’t have Internet so I’ll post this while we are at Fort-Lauderdale after we get through security.
It’s been a great time, Isaac is safe and we have our Passports now. He and Gerry rode a bus because the tap-tap driver got scared to go up the mountain because of security check points, (he didn’t seem to have insurance). Praise the Lord! He wanted $50 US to take them there and back, and we would have still had to pay Gerry for his time.
The bus was only about $2.50 US each, but they did pay the tap-tap driver some gas money for taking them to the bus depot. Well, Isaac can tell the story from his side better, but from my side Isaac was lost in the mountains on a tap-tap and we couldn’t get a hold of him. When he finally called, it was only a little while after we started trying to get contact with him, and he had been on a Motor (Motorcycle) riding from the bus station to the Orphanage in Mirebalais.
So, everything was really fine until they got back to the bus depot and all the buses were gone with the next one not leaving until 3:00am… They planned to wait for it and called us to tell us. This was a time crunch for sure, we needed to be at the airport at 7:00am and the bus would have taken at least 3 hours.
When we tried to call them at 7:30pm to tell them they should spend the night at the orphanage rather then wait at the depot they said “No problem we are almost there” in two minutes they were at the door. An SUV coming down the mountain gave some rides for about $2.50 US per person. Praise the Lord! Well, we were delighted and fed the guys, it was a good deal to know that we would be leaving in the morning. It’s hard to travel at night in Haiti, and it was a real blessing for Isaac to be back in time for a shower – his hair was like wire from the dust.
I had spent the day with the Franks, marching around town, stopping at the Canadian Embassy to get the twins Visas and getting fried food. I was starving by 2:30, because we hadn’t had breakfast. Fried food is good, you buy it from the side of the road where they cook with charcoal in those little wire frames and deep fry breaded things and meat. I especially like the spicy sour kraut type stuff that they put with it, it’s fresh. I know it seems somewhat irresponsible to some people for me to eat food that could be contaminated, but I tell you, I’ve started to get sick 3 times this trip and simply taken some Colloidal Silver and it stops in it’s tracks.
The Silver has anti-pathogenic properties and it really amazes me how well it works. I drank the water from the hand pump in Gonaives and ate the same food that made Isaac sick with no problems. I will attribute this partially to a good immune system, but could the CS be an answer to clean water for Haitians? Thank you Nadia and Monica for your hospitality in Port-au-Prince, it was a pleasure getting to know you and spend time running around town with you. You’re going to have so much fun with your new twins Hannah and Gabe. Thank you also to Blue Ridge for giving us a place to stay, we appreciated the beds and the shower so much, it’s so peaceful there.
Mary in Haiti
Stumble it!
4 Responses to “Found again… We’re flying home - I like road side food!”
September 19th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
“Colloidial Silver - The Solution For Haiti” Sounds like a great headline! Maybe we could put together a video
Wonder how hard it would be to supply CS for them over there.
September 19th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
hehe, yeah it is a solution… Well, we tried to make a batch at CFNE but had a connection problem where the solder broke loose, so Job said he would fix it and try again. We left it for him to try, and we’ll see if he gets anywhere with it.
September 25th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Mary -
email me when you get back!
I’m Denise Blesh’s buddy - Kym Seward
yep - my hubby’s fam is in Parma
your name sounds sooooo familiar!
brentnkymseward@msn.com
November 14th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Hi Mary,
I am enjoying your posts and loving the pictures. Those kids are like dolls! Awww!