Travel With Travis

Friday - Monday

I'm back home and want to wrap up the trip with some highlights from the final days I couldn't blog.

FRIDAY- Last day of schools. It went great. That evening I had to exchange some money for the trip. I tried five different banks....no luck. Then a guy on the street helped us find "a place" that would exchange for us. After driving 10 min. and driving into a market area....we were taken into a small t-shirt junk shop. A lady took me behind the counter, (our driver gestured that I was going to get shot) and then we counted a lot of money out....and I though i was in the middle of a CIA movie or something. Weird moment...a bit scary.....great memories!

SATURDAY-- We did two Hopefests. One in San MArcos and one in San Antonio. An estimate attendance of 850 were there. 78 people responded for salvation. The team did great in the event. Great day!

SUNDAY-- We headed back to Guatemala City and Antigua for some sight seeing and shopping. It was alot of fun and relaxing. The 5 hour bus ride went great thanks to me and Phil's free comedy show. No one got sick....not even Meaghann! Everyone bought the typical Latin American stuff....ponchos, machetes, and bracelets.

MONDAY...we had a chance to sleep in. We didn't have to be up until 9:30 a.m. - but who would have known it was a holiday in Guatemala City and the neighbor decided to start launching cannonball sized fireworks into the air at 6 a.m. We had breakfast at 9:30...a bug literally crawled out of Ashley's jelly, and I pulled a few hairs out of the eggs... all was good. We got to the airport and everything was smooth until we got to Atlanta. He stood next to the luggage carousel for more than hour....nothing. And we had a flight connection we had to get. Then we got our luggage....ran, ran, ran to the gate....only to find out it was changed to another gate...only to board at the last moment and find out the flight crew was late too. We got to Indy and no one's luggage made it. We waited for the next flight to come in and all but 2 suitcases were there. (Sorry Pastor Van and Sarina) We got to Mattoon at 3:30 a.m. and I crawled into bed at 4:30 a.m. And finally saw Dakota and Riley at 7:30 a.m........then i slept.

Good to be home!

posted by travis spencer @ 12:25 PM