Day 1-2: Traveling to Haiti

Thursday afternoon 6 of the 9 people on the team started for the airport in Salt Lake City.

Silas, Brenda, Gary, Jami, Tony, Me

Our first flight was to Dallas where we met the other three people of our team. For the rest of the flights we were together as an entire team.From Dallas we flew to Miami, where we had a twelve hour layover. We stayed in a hotel so that we could get one last good nights sleep before staying in the heat of Haiti. We did have some rather long waits at the airports, especially when checking in at the Miami Airport for our flight to Port au Prince.

Tanya and Tony w/ Miranda in the back

View of the AA Wing

Waiting to Check in

On Our way to Port au Prince

But our longest wait was when we got to Port au Prince to check into our domestic flight on Tortug Air. The plane was a small plane, that only held maybe 24 people. 

Our Tortug Plane

We had a great view of the cockpit the entire flight. It was the shortest flight, taking only about 30 minutes to fly north to Cap Haitien. 

View of the cockpit

The Cap Haitien airport is not a very big airport, and it only has one runway, and that one runway is for small planes. 

Cap Haitien Airport

The Runway

Our good friend Jerome picked us up at the airport and drove us the 15 minutes to the Children's Home. On the way to the Children's Home we were surprised to see two new stop lights. These are two of only four that exist in the town of Cap Haitien. Once we got to the Children's Home we were warmly greeted by the many kids. I was able to give many of them hugs, including Louisna, Richard, and Jackenson!

Jerome and the truck

After a few hours of saying hello and catching up with the kids, we had our first dinner in Haiti for the trip. It was chicken, fried plantain, rice and beans, fresh pineapple!, and bread. It was delicious as always! It was very hot in the dinning room, so we decided to enjoy the dinner on the roof!!

Dinner!

Eating on the edge

Enjoying dinner

After dinner, the guys began to assess the land to determine how to begin our preparation for the playground that will be put in by the group after us. 

Assessing the grounds w/ Hunter on the left

I hope you enjoyed the quick overview of us getting to Haiti. Thank you very much for your prayers and support while we are down here. Please leave any comments or questions that you have. Thanks for reading!


Trevor