Sunday, March 16, 2014

Beach Day

Today we went to the beach about an hour north of Port-au-Prince with some of the kids from the Grace Village orphanage. Now I, having never left the country before and had never seen the ocean, saw it and swam in it for the first time.  And it was amazing; the salt in the water hurt my eyes, but it wasn't bad once you got used to it. The beach was beautiful and clean with clear, tropical blue water and white sand.  This is a big change from the garbage-cluttered coasts we'd seen in the city. We hung out with the kids from Grace Village at the beach for a while and had lunch which was PB&J or Nutella sandwiches we had prepared the night before. I do not know how to swim, but my friends were more than willing to help me not drown. After searching for treasure under the water (namely crabs, sea urchins, jelly fish and shells) and pretending I was a wizard, we started the long tap-tap ride home where we had a delicious spaghetti dinner and had some spiritual time as we did our evening devotions.  After the devotions it began to rain HARD, so we decided to take the opportunity to make the upper deck of the guest house into a giant slip-and-slide. Fun was had by all as we slid not-so-gracefully across the upper deck. Thus concludes another wonderful day in Haiti.


 Yours in Christ,

Daniel


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