Welcome to Jamaica!

We made it! Leaving the land of snow (and more snow...) we flew to Charlotte, North Carolina, and from there to Montego Bay. Captain Anthony Sanchez of the Salvation Army Bluefields Corps, our ever-smiling host, was there to drive us across the island. Picking up his wife and daughter, we squeezed nine people and twelve 50-lb bags into the little van. The weather was magnificent, and the drive to the southern coast was uneventful. Many goats, honks, back-yard tombs, orange trees, and digicel outlets later, we arrived in Bluefields, where we quickly found bunking locations and met the rest of our team. They had been tremendously productive over the previous two days. Almost all of the fence-posts had already been cemented, and one floor of the school had already received its first coat of paint. The picture is of the schoolchildren who came to greet the early birds on their arrival on Thursday.