From The Top

For the Above Photo's, The first one is me with a few of the folks at the Lifelines Mission in Grand Goave, Haiti. We went and distributed some supplies like shovels, flops, infant diapers, wheel barrels, and some other misc items. And the second is the group photo at the end of the day. About 45 of us all together for the day.

So what's the new word?? Fresh coffee again this morning was a huge plus (and the toilet paper, thanks Dad)!! I was able to go downstairs and download some music. Always a good thing. Amazing that the 179MB file took 45mins to download. Yea, amazing that I get those at the house in about 30secs. What a huge difference out here, but thanks to DeeJay Flapjack and Pressure. Absolutely wicked set you did on the 13th.

Got lucky last week on laundry day and now all of my whites are a very light baby blue =D GO SHIPS LAUNDRY!! I swear the things we have to live with. The white towel I don't care about, but the shirts will have to be replaced =( Hopefully I can spend ten dollars and get two four packs.

Was hoping to add some pictures of my experience on Friday going ashore in Haiti to help out. Seems our MC's are being a little picky of who they want to give the extra photo's to. =( Looks like I'll have to work around it and talk to someone I know. Unbelievable some people I swear.

In the next couple of weeks we will finally start making preparations to get out of here. Still have a few more things to do before we can head north. At the moment I'll see home around the first week of next month. I believe the total estimate is over $234 million and counting, with the 20,000 troops that were initially brought down to Haiti from the US, Canadian, French, Italian, South Korean and Japanese troops are also in Haiti, and European Union to help build temporary shelters. By now Haiti is the small talk of CNN and regular news channels back home. For the most part all of the Naval Ships that were down here have made it safely back home to Norfolk or carried on their duty's to other locations around the globe.