On Our Way

On Wednesday September 12, Eric and I went to the airport in Santa Cruz to purchase a ticket to Rurrenabaque. However they do not offer a direct flight, so we had to fly back to La Paz (again), then catch a flight the following day to Rurr. However, in order to save about $400, the airline suggested that we ship our luggage instead of bring it with us. So we had to go back to the hotel, grab our luggage, bring it back to the airport, ship it, then go back to the hotel.
Needless to say, this is a little stressful. Not only is it difficult to travel with over 100 Kg of luggage, but we are now having to trust a foreign airline in a foreign country with ALL of our luggage. Not to mention, we would have to spend 1 night in La Paz as a layover. So we are without our luggage for 2 days!
After shipping our luggage, we went back to the hotel and then explored for a little bit. However, our flight left at 8:20 the next morning. Meaning, we had to be at the airport by about 7:00 and the airport was a 20 min. drive away. Our alarms however did not function that morning (as always seems to happen at crucial times) we woke up at 6:45 and panicked, not knowing if we would make our flight, we threw everything together, ran downstairs to check out and caught a taxi. Fortunately we made it!
We got onto our flight to La Paz with no problems, arrived to La Paz, and checked into the same hotel that we had stayed at before we went to santa cruz. Since we still had the whole day ahead of us, we decided to be extremely adventureous and took a very very long nap. But later that evening, we went back out to the "Black Market" and bought a few gifts and things we could use for the orphange.

But today is the big day. Today is the day that we will arrive in Rurr, get our luggage, and meet everyone at the orphange! We are so excited to finally be getting to our destination and to start working (sounds weird right)! As of today, Eric and I have 259 days left until our return to the states......well, thats IF we decide to come back....

Please continue the prayers as we are about to get into the heat of our mission trip. God has been very good so far and has been watching over us and protecting us through each step of the way in this visa saga. Thanks again to everyone and we will keep you posted.

P.S. from now on, the posts will probably be happening about once a week as we will now be having limited internet. Thanks again for all the support!



You stay civilized.....planet earth!