Sept 10, 2009 Leaving Boise for Guayaquil

A special thanks to Jolene for taking Larry and I to the airport. The check in was perfect even though we worried if we were over the weight limit.
Our plane left on time and the flight was a little bumpy but all in all went well.
Los Angeles International, what can I say? It was confusing to say the least and disorganized beyond belief. We had to get our boarding pass there for the rest of the trip as we were changing airlines. The process took us up and down and around the airport, which burned an hour of our 5 hour lay over.
We grabbed of bit of dinner, which I will say was very good and continued to wait for our flight.
We got on the plane and took off on schedule for Panama City. I had never been there or even flown over it, so it was a great experience for me. The airport was a little primitive, no Internet connections but you cant have everything I guess. We were there about 2 hours and got on a different plane and headed for Guayaquil. Most of the way there was nothing to see out the window except a white out. That was a little unnerving but then that broke up and we were able to see some beautiful scenery before landing.
We got off the plane and headed for customs not knowing what was going to take place since we didn't have our friend Diego there this year. He usually takes care of all the customs paperwork but wasn't able to this year. Ghislaine took care of it all with letters from the group we would be helping this year. It was a blessing that she had traveled to Guayaquil ahead of us. Since she is from here and her mom and other relatives are here it was a double blessing.
We got to customs and with God's hand and blessing, we were able to get through customs with no problems. They were very nice to us and just glanced at everything in the trunks, and wished us luck on our projects. Praise the Lord.
My dear friend Ana Patricia and another friend whose name is also Patricia, met me and Larry's mother in law and Ghislaine met him. Needless to say we had a wonderful welcome. It is so great to see my good friends again, especially Ana Patricia. We have become more like sisters. I met Ghislaine's mom and she is a wonderful lady.
We loaded up the cars, Larry and Ghislaine taking the trunks with the donated items and I just had my things with gifts.
Got home and rested a little, had dinner and crashed early as I had been up since 7 on Thursday. Needless to say I was really zonked.
I am going to try and post daily so I don't get behind, I know all of you can hardly wait to see whats I am doing, yeah right!!!!!!
Take care my friends, I do miss all of you and wish you could be here with me.