Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Well, we are packing up and heading home. Kids are doing well, want to get in a little shopping before we go. We'll be leaving for the airport at 10:50 our time (an hour later).
Just a reminder of our schedule today:

March 27, 2010 (Saturday)

Depart: Santo Domingo , D.R. 1:20pm American Airlines Flight #1046

Arrive: Miami , FL 3:50 pm

Depart: Miami , FL 5:40 pm American Airlines Flight #1869

Arrive: ORD 8:05 pm

Here are things you can pray for as we travel home:
~ Pray that our flight gets into Miami on time so we have plenty of time to get through customs and make our flight to Chicago.
~ Pray that our students continue to feel better and are 100% for traveling.
~ and one for me.... I'm still pretty sick. Any prayers for a quick recovery would be great!

We will call and check in once we arrive in Miami. I think the parents are planning to meet in the baggage claim area to meet us. We land at 8:05, so we should be down there shortly after. We'll call from Miami if there is a delay.

I think that's it! Can't believe the week flew by so quickly. Your kids are so excited to share with you all they experienced.

Andy's Video

Pictures from Thursday

The team was able to spend the day at the church all day on Thursday to finish up our gym project. They worked more on the floors and got the rest of the room painted. Hard workers indeed!
Here are the pictures that Carlos took for me while I stayed back with those that weren't feeling well enough to go.

This is just a fun shot to show what riding "Dominican Style" looks like. We see this everywhere.

The Presidential Palace- they took a drive into the city.

The church often loses power for hours at a time, meaning all power tools aren't able to be used. During one of those times today the students were able to relax with their Dominican friends.

One of the Dominicans is a photographer and he asked the students to help him with a project he was working on. You'll see photos below that Carlos snapped as well.

I was able to get some time off from nurse duty to go out to dinner with the students. We had a great time, delicious dinner!

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Hello from the D.R.! Today our team went to the beach, about an hour away. Carlos and I stayed behind with Emily, Lindsey, Carson, Tyler, and Megan so they could continue to recuperate. There seems to be lots of improvement in their health so please keep praying for the medicine to take hold. We kept them behind just to be cautious. We just didn't think a day in the sun would be good for them considering how hot it has been here all week. They most likely will be participating in the events tonight. We're all looking forward to an afternoon at the church to prepare a meal to serve to local families tonight.

We are lucky enough to have our last day here be Tyler's birthday too!!!

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Well, many of you already know we've hit a rough patch here in the D.R. As of tonight about half of our team is feeling pretty sick. Variety of symptoms. If your child is one of our sick ones, you've already been notified. I'm going to make this quick so I can get to bed myself... just sending out a prayer request for a quick recovery. Tomorrow is "beach day", those that are healthy will be leaving early in the morning. The rest will stay back with me and one other leader. I'll spend the morning updating the blog with pictures from today and more details about the work that went on at the church.
For the parents I've been communicating with today- all students have the same symptoms as they had today and last night. I'll write you tomorrow with more info. and how they are feeling when they wake up.
Sorry for the short post- trying to make sure I'm staying well rested!
Good night! :)

Tyler's Video