Last Night In Haiti

Wow, what a fun day in Cap! We all went in with 3 of our helpers who did so much to make this week successful.
We drove into town with the majority of us riding in the back of the truck over VERY or should I say EXTREMELY bumpy roads. We sang praise songs all the way in! Half in Creole and half in English at the same time. Then we had a bit of a competition seeing which half could sing louder. It didn't matter that there were hundreds of people on the sides of the road listening in.
The first stop was the school; many kids in a beautiful building. I took some great pictures that I will upload probably after we get home. I know that Randy will appreciate his kitchen even more after he saw the women cooking outside under a tarp in huge kettles being heated by fires made with coal.
We stopped at the market where people are selling everything and anything. It was a bit overwhelming initially until all the people backed off. At first it was "please come here, I am so hungry" "Please, I need a car to leave here, you can help me" "My family is in the hospital" I almost bought a little homemade doll. I wanted to make sure that it was not a voodoo doll; the lady said that, "oh, no, I love Jesus". Then later our interpreter said "YES, that WAS a voodoo doll, they will say anything to make money!" The best question was the first question as we were embarking from the truck, "Are you from Oregon?" Not sure what that meant!
It was SO hot and we were not drinking enough water and we needed to get to our next spot which was a little resort with a pool and a nice restaurant where we were able to treat our friends to. Haitian time is like rez time so our 2 hour planned stay at the resort stretched into 4 as we waited for our ride to come back for us which was fine because it was very relaxing and refreshing!
Next was the ride home and let me tell you it was better than any ride at the fair! We had 15 of us in the back of the truck to ride through the city! A ride through the city is VERY interesting. No such thing as blinkers and a two lane road becomes a 8 lane as there are bikes, motorcycles, tap taps (little cabs), huge trucks, people and any other types of vehicles that you can imagine. Then it gets even better when the pavement ends and you are in the dirt roads. I guess we've decided that when the driver goes faster it is a little better! Hanging on for dear life is NO lie! As we drove closer we stopped now and then to drop off the additional people we were giving rides to who were the workers at the school we visited.
Yesterday one of our team members, Nathan from Montana sadly saw a body burned on the side of the road surrounded by at least a couple hundred people. We just now we found out that it was a man who had kidnapped a mother and her two children and was caught, cut with a machete and burned for his bad decision; no police just people coming together to save a family and punish the criminal.
Time for supper, sad to be leaving tomorrow....