We Have Arrived

It was a very long day. Thankfully all of Bonnie’s family rallied around us in the morning to help us pack a couple cars worth of luggage and take us to the airport. It is dark out so I have no clue about our surrounding area, but the home we are in is very nice. I am very thankful, the kids did great going through security at the start of our trip, and also going through immigration and customs on the last part. We had a few hiccups because we didn’t take into consideration that we brought a four year old. He is very lucky he is adorable, it’s his greatest weapon, it also keeps anyone from harming him.

The whole time we were traveling, I was nervous about moving 18 bags of luggage. But there were luggage carts on our end, and an attendant on the other end of the trip who used a type of hand truck to move our luggage around. It only takes a half our drive from the airport, we rented a minivan and they gave us a suburban, and it doesn’t fit into the garage attached to the house we are in, we are gonna get a minivan tomorrow from the rental car agency.

When we got to the house, we were greeted by four people who run the company that rents these houses out. It felt more like being greeted by some unknown great aunts and uncle instead of a business transaction. The hosts even bought us some breakfast foods for us for tomorrow morning, it was really thoughtful. They also brought us a big floral arrangement you can see in this photo below. So thankful my kids speak Spanish, they were translating for me with the other people.

There are three bedrooms, and each bedroom has a trundle bed. I grew up sleeping on a trundle bed, and so far the kids are very excited and not fighting about where they want to sleep. They started playing hide and seek as soon as they got inside.

We plan to be here for close to 180 days. From here on out I will be blogging by day. Tomorrow I will call “Day 1”, and will go on from there. Bonnie will hopefully add posts as well, but I don’t want her to have this obligation. There will be one week per month that I fly back home to handle business, my flights will be early Monday and then fly back mid to late Friday. I am very grateful to God for getting us here safe. Now I’m going to pass out. God bless.