Weekend Wonders

 

 Yesterday afternoon, Sarah and I were walking down to deliver groceries to a SITAG apartment that was about to be inhabited by some of our favorite people when we saw the LC Phoenix pulling into the wharf.  We hustled because we knew that our friends were on that ship!

 

 

The kids rode down in the SITAG truck, driven by Henk, and we arrived at the wharf to find it a swarming mass of people.

 

 

One little door was the only way to get in or out, we think it was an attempt to help keep theft to a minimum.

 

 

Can you find my friend in the photo above?  She's trying to find all of her cargo.

 

 

Finally, every piece was accounted for, and some of us begin to load up the truck,

 

while some of us were just happy to see our friends again.

 



And in typical style, both of these huge signs were ignored by the vehicles around us.

 



The skies were beginning to grow dark by the time we finished loading everything into the truck.

 



And this wonderful woman is such a blessing. See this grin?  Can you tell that she has been on the boat for more than 30 hours?  And it's not a cruise ship, folks.

 



Finally, we begin the drive back to SITAG with a load of precious cargo.

 



The umbrellas I handed out didn't do much good, so we ended up with a very damp load of precious cargo.

 



 

When we got settled back in, we ate a quick supper (yay for the freezer!), and then we went to talk to Aaron on the radio.  He gave a great report from the meeting in the morning.  Eight villages from all over the Russells showed up, and he was really encouraged as he reconnected with people he hadn't seen in a while.  Aaron said they even caught a nice tuna on the way home in the motor canoe!