Nicole and Anica went to the village of Petit Goave today. They have a Ford ranger pick-up truck that was used to get there. There must have been 10 people in the back of the truck. The drive is as exciting as anything just trying to stay in! NO really it was hang on for dear LIFE! White knuckles included!!
When they arrived at the village it was blocks and blocks of people under tents and huts, selling their wares. Nicole described it as a cross between value village and the dollar store. The locals don't like to have people linger and window shop so the group was asked many times to marche, which means walk or move along.
Anica wanted a sprite so Nicole went to buy one. It was 30 haitian dollars or 15 if you drink it there and give him the glass bottle back. It was really odd to have to stand there and guzzle a Sprite.
Charles, Noah, Pat and Mike (from Crossroads team) spent the morning making another platform for the playground. The kids will love their new monkey bars. We had fun watching them work on it later in the day. It went like this " how many white boys does it take to build a platform in the heat of Haiti" the number is 4! Each on one end, passing the drill around....so they all were included.
Off the the ocean for the end of the day! The Carribean Ocean is so calm and beautiful. Our host here, Rebecca, found some sand dollars for Anica to make a necklace! Anica and Noah love going to the ocean....every day if they had there way! Marc bought some crayfish ( which they say is sort of lobster like) for dinner. Its like "a minute steak" verses a sirloin!
We are looking forward to tomorrow....church at 8-11 or so then a day of rest!
Now its crash time! The heat sure tires us!
A quick note of the money system. I have yet to get a definite answer as to why it is the way it is, but they have two currencies. Gourdes and Haitian dollars. 5 gourdes gets you 1 Haitian dollar. Hatian dollars are 7 to 1 US dollar. Yesterday we had to go to Masion D'aff, which means home stuff.
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