Day 1 - The Journey South

**Sorry for the delay. We thought the house would have internet. I was able to get to the church offices today to get on-line.... keep checking in throughout the week for more updates. Thanks to everyone for your support and making this trip possible for all of us.**

We leave from Atlanta early Saturday morning. Somehow everyone makes it to Atlanta airport by 7:00am in time for the 8:45am flight. Three planes later, by way of Miami and Caracas, we arrive in Barquisimeto greeted by staff from Proyecto Jonas, Johnny and Claudia. The airport is old school with stairs for deplaning and a not so automated baggage system.

To transport all of us, we pile into a van and a car. We have quite a bit of luggage since we have brought tools, clothes and gifts for the boys not too mention all our own stuff. The drive to the "Farm" is through the city. It's so funny to see so much US commercial influence, Firestone, Pepsi, Coca Cola etc. so far away from the US.

We finally arrive at our destination around 10:00pm local time which is 1/2 hour behind Atlanta. The greeting we receive is awesome! As each one of us get out of the van and go down the stairs to the cabana where the boys and staff are waiting for us, we get applause. Although we are exhausted this gets our excitement going to have finally arrived. After a welcome greeting and introduction, they get us situated in our rooms; the big game room has been converted for the guys and the 4 women get an upstairs room. As luck would have it, the guys get A/C and the women get fans. But there is a cool breeze and after engineering a mosquito net as a screen over the window we crash for the night in Venezuela...