Haiti Day 10

Day 10
March 23, 2013

I am sitting in a plane on the runway in Miami waiting for maintenance to clear our plane for take off.

We left the guest house around 7:00 this morning.  When we got up there was a table set up with bags of coffee, peanut butter, vanilla and jelly for sale.  I bought a large bag of coffee for PK, some individual bags to give as gifts to my Sunday School class and two bottles of vanilla.

When we made it to the airport we had to split for two separate flights.  Dee, Connie, Rodney and I were on American.  Bill, Trevor and Claude were on Spirit.  Of course, there were porters trying to carry our bags before we even got out of the truck.  Connie was very assertive and calm.  She asked who the boss was, confirmed we would pay one dollar per bag and then allowed them to help us.  Once inside the building there was a dog sniffing our bags.  It alerted on Rodney's.  He has a blanket that fold into a pillow and hooks on his bag.  He had to unfold and the dog sniffed and sniffed.  The guard finally waved us through.

We made it through immigration and then had to go through security.  Again, Rodney was stopped.  he had a pair of blunt tipped scissors in his little black doctor bag.  He had to pull them out to show they really were blunt tipped and we went on.  Once we got to our gate, we had to go through security again.  That portion of the terminal is run by the U.S.  They found a pair of scissors Connie forgot to put in her checked bag.  She handed them over and we were set.

There were several other teams from different churches and organizations waiting for the same flight at the airport.  We were chatting with a retired couple traveling with a group out of Florida.  They had retired near Sarasota.  Dee asked them where they lived before they retired and they were from Evansville.  Small world.

We easily cleared immigration and customs in Miami.

We are finally cleared for take off.  Homeward bound!