We have arrived!

On Monday us girls made the flight from Los Angeles to Mazatlan. It was as easy as I could have hoped for. Benadryl has become my new best friend. We stepped off the plane onto the tarmac and a wave of heat and humidity hit that took my breath away. Elisabeth smiled at me and said, “welcome home”.

The original plan was for the guys to drive in the day before and set things up for us, get some groceries and pick us up from the airport. As they were driving my car through the border on Sunday morning there was a small hitch that delayed their trip. The car is in my name and I wasn’t there. When you drive into Mexico you have to register your car. If that doesn’t happen and you reach a checkpoint bad things can happen. So my parents had to be called to help out. They had to wait to Monday to get to the safety deposit box and get our marriage certificate and then fax it to the motel. The guys finally crossed the border around 6 a.m. and made it to Mazatlan by 7:00 p.m. It was a long day for them.

So we had a really nice guy named Chris who is with the YWAM in Mazatlan waiting at the airport for us. He loaded all our bags in a friend’s car and drove us to our new home! We through our bags down and headed out first to the coffee shop to use their phones and jump on the internet and then to the grocery store for immediate supplies.

The plan for the next couple of days is to settle in, get the phone lines and internet set up (it seems to take a while ‘round here), and learn how the house runs. There are filtration systems, pool cleaning guidelines, and general cleaning practices like scraping gecko poo off the walls to get used to.

It is so good to be here finally! It has taken 7 or 8 months of planning and thinking about being here and we are so excited to jump in and get going.