Wednesday Night

The day began with the school bus returning after dropping the children back off because the road was blocked by people who had tires flaming to purposely barricade the way into town. Jude Celestin was to be in Cap to campaign for the upcoming vote. He is one of now 19 people running to be the next Haitian president. Apparently there are alot of people who obviously do not like him.
With school not being a part of our day I was asked if I wanted to ride along to run an errand to a neighboring village to buy some goat meat. Grand Riviere is about a half hour drive away. The town is beautiful, clean, some streets cobblestone and bordered by a beautiful river. Once discovering that goat meat was not to be found I was told we were going to another village market to buy a goat. Cool!
Picture travelling along a mountainside road that follows along the path of the river. Mud holes-some much larger than others-making for the now 'traditional' bouncing and swaying style of travel. After an hour and a half of travel along a countryside of beauty and bumps we arrived to our destination.
Our driver was off to buy a goat and the rest of us walked through the market. Much of the products were displayed in wheelbarrow; salt, rice, and grain. Horses walking by with chickens hanging down with their legs tied together, food, fruits and various foods I have never seen before. After an hour we were back on the road now with 3 chickens, papayas, and two goats!
It wasn't far down the road when we were stopped by a man. Apparently he had a family member in labor and there was some problems and would we take her to the hospital. So, a very pregnant woman and 3 of her family members got into the back of the truck with the goats and the chickens! I kept watching our 'pregnant patient' wondering if we might see a baby before we arrived to the hospital. The bumps could NOT have helped but gratefully we were able to get her to the hospital after about 40 minutes.
This afternoon we hopped on the school bus to attend the schools semi-final soccer match. We were taking a back road to stay away from burning tires but only 10 minutes down the road we received word that the game was cancelled. The rest of the afternoon and evening was spent by taking a pieceful nap under the net and hanging out with Tanner.
Happy to have an opportunity to blog on Pastor's computer; NEXT trip I will hopefully bring a laptop of my own.