Well, we just can’t make it anymore without a car. We need
to be going over to Good Rest and we are worried about our family’s safety
walking on the road. So... we said yes to the cheapest possible car rental that
we could find. Today we took the car out to try to get money that had been
wired to us for the Good rest kid’s school, more food, and necessities. On our
way, three people leaned out of the Tap-Tap in front of us, waving frantically to let us know that
our front tire was falling off. We cut off the truck headed our way and bumped up
onto a “sidewalk” so that Carl could tighten the TWO lug nuts that tire had.
What is the Creole word for lug nut? We had no idea. There is no air
conditioning. It is hot. HOT. People are staring at us, but this time I am
convinced it is not because of the color of our skin, it is because we are
literally driving the crappiest car in Haiti.
Western Union’s servers are down. We bump through traffic
looking for another Western Union that looks relatively safe. Three stops
later, we have to give up. All of the servers are down right now. The Good Rest
kids are surviving on just a little bag of rice. We are stressed about letting
them down and not getting money to them today.
Tomorrow is Amelia’s third birthday! We will spend our
morning going back to Western Union to get the money for the kids and also
taking breakfast over to Good Rest kids. Hopefully we can accomplish this relatively quickly so
that we can have a small birthday gathering for Amelia later in the day.
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| She loves everything pink!!! |
Happy third birthday to our amazing Amelia!
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