Travel Day #2

 So let's try this again! We woke up, packed up, and got on the airport shuttle. It was full, so we crammed in the back of the van. I sat next to an older man and we started talking. He asked where we were traveling, I said Belize and he asked oh for a Christmas vacation, for a week or two? And I said no, we're going down for 4 months, we're Jehovah's Witnesses and we're going to be preaching to the deaf. The woman sitting in the next row up whirled around, waited patiently until I finished speaking and then said quite proudly My mom is one of Jehovah's Witnesses! She's a regular pioneer! We three had a nice chat all the way to the airport.

We had been concerned about our checked bags. At Asheville, we had checked them but the bag tags had said Atlanta. When we got to Atlanta yesterday, they had assured us that the bags would be collected and held overnight and then put on our flight for today automatically. So at the service desk this morning, we asked and the agent confirmed that now we were checked in, that the bags would be moved and then loaded.

We had 2 vouchers left for breakfast so we made our way to the International Terminal, got a coffee and a breakfast burrito and then got waters for the plane. 



Once we boarded, we watched a movie and then 3 hours later arrived in Belize City!


Now that we were here, we didn't have a way to contact anyone. We didn't have local cell service and no Wifi. So we agreed that we would wait up to an hour if needed to see if the brothers had come to drive us home, and then we would see about getting a bus. Since we were supposed to have arrived yesterday, we had already communicated our travel delay but tonight was the CO visit and there was a meeting. We didn't want them to miss the meeting but we didn't want to either.

No need to worry since as soon as we walked outside the airport, there was our new COBE waiting for us. He drove us the 2 and 1/2 hours home to our village, stopping by the grocery store so we could get a few essentials and then on to our new home.


Palm trees






Scenery on the way





Mayan KH


Our Village


Belizean tamale

Do you see the chicken foot?! It is foot, back, neck & gizzard...

We rested for a little while and then got ready for the meeting. I took a shower of course but there was a heating unit on the water pipe so it heated the water for the shower. I had mentally prepared for a cold shower so the warm/hot water was a pleasant surprise but now I was sleepy!


No comment on electrical codes...

The same brother picked us and the sister who lives below us up and we went to the meeting. We met many of the friends and then the other need greater family who is also here for sign language.


New friends


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