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Day 3

Day 2

Pics for now, and a real blog post will be tonight after I preach. Thanks for the patience.
One thing before I go, God is good, no matter what we are facing, or what we are trapped in. He is bigger and his Love covers all things.

Day 1

Saturday, November 14th.
It was early, and cold. I could see my breath. We had to move our car from the Day's Inn to the parking lot 2 to the south to catch our shuttle. We made it through check in and security fairly quickly and soon we were in route to Houston.

We had about an hour and a half layover in Houston which meant some Panda Express and recharging our electronics. The flight to Trinidad from Houston was long, but fairly easy. I sat next to a gentleman named Roger. Roger was on his way to the Island from work, but a good ole' boy from Texas. We had great conversation for a while, and I found out Roger was a Christ follower. It was awesome, and he said he would be praying for Scott and I on our Mission, as I told him I would be praying for him.

We arrived at about 9:25pm Trini time. It was hot, and humid. The lady at Customs was less than pleasant, and asked us a ton of questions, but fortunatley Steph sent me an email with the answers to the questions and we made it through without a prison sentance hehe.

Stephie and Richie met us at the exit. We loaded our stuff and asked for something real Trini to eat. Traffic is crazy here! First they drive on the left side of the road (Trinidad was under British rule until the mid 60's and they were liberated to there own Republic in the 80's), there are way to many cars here, the roads are not very wide and they use there horns all the time. The horn thing was different to me, depending on how they honk the horn or how many times, it is telling the other drivers differnt things

Steph and Richie are both super awesome. I think Richie is my black twin. He has to be the happiest person I have met. He digs the Colts, Dave Matthews and Video games, needless to say we had alot in common. It is so awesome to see Richie and Stephie together, there love for Christ is awesome and there desire to give of themselves for the benefit of others is encouraging and infectious.

So for our first stop to get something "real Trini" we made it to a town called Maloney. From what Steph and Richie said, this place is a pretty rough part of Trinidad. We stopped for Doubles at a large apartment looking building. Let me explain doubles, they are 2 Trini type of tortillas (smaller and thicker) thrown on a piece of wax paper and they load it with a Chick Peas sauce, Tamarind, pepers, and a bunch of other stuff. It is soo good, and very messy - which I do well :o). Two old people served us them along with an apple soda called AppleJ through a large locked metal gate. I counted I think 8 huge cockroaches while we ordered, but friends and all, this was deffinitley worth it. Amazing meal.

After the meal we drove around as they showed us different parts of these towns (towns change rapidly down here. After only 5 to 10 blocks, you could be in a different town.) Everything is really close together here. We arrived at our guest house and it is pretty cool. It is a very large living area below Pastor KK's house, with a nice pool out front. There are people all over outside, and when we shut the doors at night, we lock 2 deadbolts, lock 2 latches and pull a large gate over the door, I guess cause it is a little rougher. It was late and church was at 7:30 Trini time (6:30 Indiana time) so I took a quick swim and crawled into bed.

**side note**

So there are a ton of stray dogs here. They run in packs and you see em no matter what part of the Island you are on. They just eat garbage. It is kind of sad. Apparently 3 or 4 of em hang out close to the guest house, because we heard them having a heated discussion all night via them barking. Praise God for Ipods!! haha