Day 8 "Beach Day"

Sometimes you make plans, and God has other plans.  Guess who wins?

The plan for today was as follows:
1. go to church with our Dominican friends
2. have lunch
3. go to the beach and enjoy a relaxing day

God has a sense of humor...

We woke up to the sound of rain.  The rain got harder.  And harder.  And harder.  A guy named Noah in an ark floated by.  And then it got wet.  By 8.30am our entire house was flooded with an inch of water.  The road was flooded and whatever was floating in it ended up in our house.  The girls and Ben launched into action and we ended up working an evacuation plan.  We found a place nearby (Makarios house means "blessing") that happens to be a mission house with nobody staying here.

One problem:  the road in front of the house is flooded with almost two feet of water.  The first van shows up and manages to get through.  But as soon as we're about to start loading, it dies.  And it won't restart.  So another SUV shows up and we get the girls out.  And we wait.

Soon after an unknown silver Nissan 4x4 pickup truck shows up and Josh gets out.  Now it's clear that Josh isn't from here; we soon find out that he's actually from North Carolina.  He and his wife Jen and their family are the hosts at Makarios and he's here to help.  We get the rest of the stuff out of the house and moved to higher ground.

We're settled in.

On the plus side we managed to have most of our sponsor children here for lunch.  So that's good.

And the sun is just coming out now.  I think the beach came to us.

More to come later...