Haiti Day 2

We needed to leave for church by 7:30am and it was hard to get up and ready in time after the long travel day yesterday. Faith found some oatmeal and was eating it dry for breakfast as a snack.

We thought that was a strange choice. The Haitian church was only about 15 minutes away and the singing had already started before we arrived. Every bench was full but some of the people graciously moved out of the 3 front benches so we could sit through the 2 hour long service.

The singing was amazing, Joan interpreted the service for us and guess what, the Spirit is working in Haiti too! After the service we were visiting with the people and the dog below was waiting patiently behind his owner.

The dogs are all very very thin and all of them are small. On the way back from the service Joan pointed out the cock fighting pit below.

We drove back to the compound long enough to have a snack then took off for the Hospital Luminere at Bonn Fin. On the way Tim pointed out the tree below.

This is what the Haitians call a Mapou tree or Spirit tree. They believe evil spirits live in these trees and they won't cut these trees down. We drove by this man riding his horse and had to stop to take a picture. The horses here are just as small and skinny as the dogs.

The next picture is just a bit embarrassing to explain. I saw them as we rounded the corner and thought, "oh how nice people are out enjoying this beautiful day out on the river." Joan laughed and told me, "they are doing laundry!"

As we passed through the river bed below Tim told us the story of this river bed after Hurricane Sandy. This river bed is also used as a market but during the hurricane it completely washed out the road.

Tim was up at the hospital during the hurricane and had to hike down to get the road grader. They had a team up at the hospital that was suppose to fly out that day but of course they didn't. Tim and another guy ended up fixing the road in several different places. Then a bit later the protestors were out and had blocked this same road in numerous places, each time Tim came to the blockade the protestors would remember how Tim fixed the road and would carry his motorbike over the blockade. The next picture is not a river bed it is the road! And Tim says this is a good road.

We got to the hospital, had lunch then another church service

then a tour of the hospital and finally took off for the hike. This was a very steep hike down to a water fall.

The falls were beautiful but the hike down and back up was harrowing, very steep very easy to lose ones balance.

We made it home late for dinner, probably around 7:30pm. Joan baked a turkey for dinner and it was delicious.