Well we've arrived in Grand Goave with no incidents and all our luggage!  PTL!!  Things are definitely progressing here, as more rebuilding is done and its a bit cleaner, but its all relative... a long ways to go.  The team is well and adjusting to the trip and being away.  I think Danny wants to share so he'll follow.  Tomorrow starts the work projects, it'll be busy.

    Well! It is sure an eye opener seeing first hand what we saw on tv. The trip was good with no trouble on the flights. My big case got damaged and I'm not sure how bad the zipper got broke. I'll find out tomorrow when we empty the cases and get to work. There is plenty of electrical work to do so we are going to be busy. Colleen would freak out at the way they drive here. I'm glad I was in the back of the van.Any way all is well and I'm missing everyone already. God bless and I'll get on this again later. Ian

 There's an awful lot to take in - a lot of thoughts going through my brain and a lot of things I could write here.  It's tough travelling past such deep poverty and terrible filth and see kids the same age as mine living in it - how sobering, saddening, upsetting - I'm very glad I'm not here with my family, but at the same time, I'm really missing my family at the moment.  I saw a kid at the airport in Miami that looked a lot like my son, which was a very different sensation than looking at a little girl about the same size as my daughter sitting in a pile of dirt, garbage and rocks - wearing a little shirt but no pants.  I believe the day will come that I can make a trip like this with my kids but I'm immensely glad that my kids are shielded from the trip I just took - and yet...  Sunday morning as I was finishing packing, Sammy (who is 4) was getting upset that I was going.  He didn't want me to go.  It's hard to explain exactly what's going on to a 4 year old so Erin and I told him that daddy was going to Haiti to help people that didn't have a lot of things - where there are kids that don't have any toys.  Well that hit Sammy - he wanted to know how many kids there were that didn't have any toys and he could give them his toys.  We couldn't tell him that there were thousands upon thousands upon tens of thousands - Erin suggested that maybe there were a couple of kids, Sammy said he thought there were probably 3 and ran downstairs and came back with 3 of his little hot-wheels cars for me to bring to the kids here with no toys...so what an incredibly blessed man I feel like - I get to raise my kids in a place with so much blessing, and yet in the midst of our incredibly selfish culture, my little son can understand and have compassion for a kid, just like him, who doesn't have any toys.  Blessings!  Danny