January 22, 2014
Up at 3:00am, finish packing, on the road by 4:30am. Burrrrr it's cold! Of course we wore shorts which didn't seem like such a good idea @ 9 degrees.
We boarded the plane for Atlanta - BEAUTIFUL clear sky, sun coming up over the snow covered mountains....good bye snow!
To think 5 weeks ago and what was happening. By the grace of God and the help of all our friends and church family we are on our way.
Our travel was uneventful, thankfully. We arrived on time in Belize to a warm sunny 81degrees.
Our first stop was Cheers, yummy chicken, beans and rice. We had several people approach us that wanted to know about the mission, several very good contacts to have here in Belize. The one is from the Rotary and KNOWS people. Joe has the scoop on that.  
Unloaded totes at the mission house and back to Carmen and Faye's for dinner with Troy, Barbara and Leroy. We sorted through quilts, dresses and shorts that we had brought  for the preschool students.
Long day, to bed early and a good night sleep.


January 23, 2014
Morning brings rain and sunshine. Sitting on the porch.........coffee and devotions. Making plans for the day. Off to Spanish Look Out and on to Lost Tambos school to put the schedule together for the sewing classes.
We picked up Ms Tomasita at her house.......guess what.....the roads in LosTambos are WORSE than last year. Hard to imagine. It has been raining a lot and there has been a lot of flooding.
We met with Ms. Lily....she has 3 teachers who will be taking sewing classes between 12:00 and 1:00, everyday that we can work it in.
We also have 2 new women from the village who will be taking classes this trip with the other ladies of the group.  Ms. Tomasita has kept attendance through the year and there has been the same 12 women who continue to come for every class. There has been a lot of progress made by this group and we are so very proud of them.
Ms. Lily is a great supporter of the sewing class, she helps by letting them use the solar power energy for the machines and allowing them to use the space in the palapa hut for classes. We are looking for projects to do to as a way to thank her.
We have a list of repairs for the machines and tables to build before we can start our classes. The group has finished numerous projects and they are anxious to show us their work. I am excited! It should be fun. 

Classes in Selena still remain to be scheduled but I will now have Ms Tomasita's help with the class and we are hoping to have the instructor Louisa Escalante work with the ladies though out the next year. This will be wonderful for them to have someone to work with them every two weeks.

January 24, 2014
Up early, had a good breakfast at Cheers the hit the road for Chetamul.
Spent most of the day on the road about 2.5 hours drive to Chetamul with Carmen and Faye.  Walked through a very expensive mall, went into Sam's Club and shopped the market district. The market district was the most fun.....A FABRIC store! Whoo hooo!!!  Checking the pricing for thread, zippers and fabrics. Really good pricing on everything.  We will be returning on Thursday with Ms Tomasita and Ms Louisa to purchase supplies for the sewing group.
Did I mention we didn't have water in the mission house??? Just like camping, it's a good thing Joe has had practise.

January 25, 2015
Raining this morning.
Did I mention that we don't have running water? (in the faucets) we have it everywhere else.

Faye and I went to market, it was raining a little.
Joe and Carmen left for LosTambos to set up the system to measure for the water in the spring.
That's where we are today.....................more to follow when Joe returns.

Sorry that we had to blog all of this together, certainly didn't want to write a book. Internet has been
difficult for some reason and we haven't been able to get on. Must be the rain??