DAY 1 TRAVEL

Day 1 travel

The journey started at 1:30am on Thursday evening. Most of our trip to Chicago was filled with Thunderstorms. We arrived without incident to O’hare airport with plenty of time to spare. Many of our team members were excited for our flight. There was a lot of apprehension about customs and being in a foreign country. Needless to say that apprehension continues today. We arrived at Guatemala City airport about 3:30pm. We made it through customs without any major issues. Of course we had a few people who looked suspicious and needed some further assistance figuring out what they packed from the customs agent. Steve, Brad Stolte, & Nick were the culprits. After a mere 5 minutes we were able to proceed to the exit of the airport where we were greeted by Timo. Timo is in charge of the Wick house and Camp Shalom, which is where we are staying.

We ran into a bit of traffic on our way to Camp Shalom. It was supposed to be a 3 hour trip and turned into 6 hours due to traffic issues. We arrived at Camp Shalom at about 9:30pm. We then were greeted with our evening meal; most of us just wanted a bed. Most people were able to sleep on the plane or on our 6 hour tour. The quality of sleep didn’t happen until last night about 11pm.