Today we (Zeb, Jordan, Brad, Sarah & I) left the Des Moines airport at 6:05 am. Flying American Airlines, we arrived in Dallas, TX - then made a quick dash to our next terminal where we met up with Chris (an adult from Louisiana) and Victoria (past state president and current national officer candidate from Arkansas). The flight to Miami, FL was on a HUGE 767 Boeing. It was so big it had two aisles & we had to get going up to 160 MPH before lifting off the ground.
We arrived in Miami & found out our flight to Port-au-Prince, Haiti was cancelled due to tropical weather.
We met up with the rest of our group (Emma, Mike, Kait & Lauren).
We grabbed some dinner at Subway, got our luggage from the 'lost-n-found' claim & checked in to the hotel.
Since we're stranded in Florida for a day, what did we do? You guessed it - South Beach! The ocean is very salty & very warm. We swam, napped, grabbed some supper at some nice burger joint & headed back to the hotel.
Tonight a handful of us checked out the hotel gazebo to view the sunset. We decided it was kind of romantical (if you would have been there with your special someone). There was music playing, a warm breeze and some little geico-like lizards!
Emma taught me how to 'shag dance,' which is very similar to swing dancing.
Now we wait for further news tomorrow. Hopefully we can catch a flight in to Haiti either tomorrow or Friday.
I may or may not have Internet access in Haiti, so updates will depend upon that.
All is well, everyone's safe, we're all smiling & praying we'll be able to make it to Haiti to help our our Haitian friends.
From my hotel bed in Miami, God Bless.
Steven
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