I Have Arrived...

Hey Everyone! So, I am finally here. It feels like I have been planning this trip for forever. This day has been crazy. But travelling always is, especially internationally. So, after going to be around midnight, I woke up at 2:30 a.m. My mom, dad, and me were on the interstate by 3:15 and were at the Atlanta airport by 5:00. I am starting to think that airlines are trying to see how difficult they can make things. Both of my bags were under fifty pounds and met the size requirements. (Ms. Kim- LLBean bags are fine. : )!) Security was remarkably a breeze. I had no problems with any of my precautionary medicine. The flight was super smooth to Atlanta. The guy I am travelling with was able to talk the stewardess to change our tickets so that we were sitting by each other and not by some strangers. The flight was maybe half full. The flight went by pretty fast. Then, we arrived in Miami. Just when we thought things were going smoothly, we landed in Miami, Florida. Basically, this is the most confusing airport ever. After getting turned around when getting off of our plane, we walked the mile to our gate. We were sitting and eating, when guess what? They changed our gate. So we had to walk the mile back to where we came from. It was quite frustrating. You would think that concourse C and D would be next to each other......but not in Miami. Who know who designed the Miami airport, but it could definitely use some help. We met some remarkable people travelling to Honduras. We met a couple who is building houses for various families in Tegucigalpa, a women who owns a clothing store in Tegucigalpa, who is going to donate clothes and diapers to the orphanage, and a sweet, sweet lady who just loves to travel and was telling us everything we might ever want to know about Honduras. We arrived safely in Tegucigalpa. the runway here is one of the top three shortest and most dangerous in the world. Every time I land here it seems to get less scary. It is always a fun thing to watch for newbies coming to Honduras. We got off the plane, were the first in line at customs, and went through super easily. We retrieved all of our bags and were super excited none of them got lost. We met the taxi driver, who had a great big sign for us. Katja's husband was doing some shopping in Tegucigalpa, so he rode the taxi with us back to the orphanage. Before we knew it a guy had our bags and were putting them in the car, and held out his hand and asked for a "propina"-tip. We gave him seven dollars since we had five bags total. Then we realized that four other men were rearranging them in the car. They also wanted propinas. Todd finally got fed up gave them twenty dollars. Which is ridiculous. I only gave them two total dollars, and did not back down. : )! We arrived to the orphanage safely in about an hour and a half. The kids are all excited to see us. I am getting settled in to my room and unpacking. I will add pictures soon! I love and miss you all!