Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Recap: Day 1

Sunday march 10th began our journey to the medical mission trip at Totonicapan in Guatemala.

Our flight was leaving at 3:30 pm CST from Dallas/Forth Worth and several members of the team were already in Dallas since Friday, so only about 15 people had to travel from Waco that same day.

It was a rough night. That very Sunday was spring ahead so we had already one hour less of sleep. Surprisingly, there was almost no traffic on the highway, so we made it on time accordingly with the schedule: be at the airport 2 hours prior to take off. 

There was an issue though: we where not the only ones traveling for spring break so the parking at the airport was full. Some of us had to leave our cars in external parking lots or in the more expensive parking inside DFW. After parking and running back to the terminal, the whole team made it through airport security just on time to board the plane. Luckily enough we still had time to buy food and have lunch before leaving.

The first flight was good. We also got a meal on the plane which helped us to get to San Salvador. After almost 3 hours we landed in San Salvador and waited for about 1 hour to get into our next flight to Guatemala City. This was only a 30 minute flight and then we arrived in Guatemala at 8:00 PM local time (GMT -6).

After waiting a bit for our contacts in lieu, we went to have dinner at Pollo Campero, where we all had pizza.

After the long journey, we proceed to the place where we were spending the night, a baptist retreat house on the north west side of the city. After checking in we all went to sleep expecting the beginning of our missions trip adventure.

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