Xalapa Day 1

After a very long Sunday, we safely arrived in Xalapa today about 1pm. We left Sunday after church, had some car issues before we even got out of town, invoked “Plan B” and finally got out of Jonesboro about 1:30. We got into Dallas around 8:30pm, ate dinner, dropped off the Fowler kids at my parents and finally got to our hotel near DFW airport at midnight. The next “morning” (technically Monday), our alarms went off at 3am…outside temp 84°. We were on the shuttle to the DFW airport by 4am and airborne for Mexico City by 6:30am.

After arriving in Mexico City…outside temp 60°, we successfully navigated customs and had about 45 mins before our next flight from Mexico City to Veracruz. We made it into Veracruz around noon…outside temp 80° and met our contact, Eduardo.

We piled into a van, luggage in tow, and drove the 1hr 20min drive up the mountain to Xalapa. We’ve tried to catch up on some sleep and we’re all about to hit the sack.

A few specific highlights from today…

• Sean survived his first flight and first trip out of the country
• Our van driver enjoyed our group’s sing along to the currently popular “Your Love Is My Drug” when that song surprisingly came up on the Spanish radio. We have video that we’ll upload later.
• Lunch #1 was good ol’ American pizza at Costco (like Sams)
• Nice cool weather here in the mountains of Xalapa

On The Agenda for Tomorrow

• headed to Eduardo’s church building to be treated to breakfast
• we’ve invited several to join us to watch Mexico play in the World Cup tomorrow at 9am CST
• mixing and mingling with some from the church and hopefully some students from the nearby Universidad de Veracruz (University of Veracruz)