Friday, September 10, 2010

The Storm

Every night we see the same thing here in Guatemala. Columbia was the same way except a little bit cooler during the day and always a constant over-cast. These lighting storms go on for hours after sunset and continue for most of the night. They do sit off the coast enough that we can’t hear the lighting strike, but the way they light up the sky is something totally different from what we see in the US. Back home on the east coast right now it’s in the 70’s, and I’m sure in other parts of the US it’s just starting to finally cool down after another heat wave of a summer.

Here it’s in the 90’s with the heat index pushing it over 100 everyday. People are loosing weight by just being out there and drinking water for 8 hours.

Going from country to country like we are, we sit at anchor the entire time of the Humanitarian visit which is normally a ten day stop before moving on. In for ten days, out for two maybe three and then another ten day stop. Amazing budget we are racking up just for this. So far alone we’ve spent over 123 thousand with Guatemala still pending as we start rapping up in the next few days and that is just for the mission itself. Not including our cost of fuel or what it takes to keep us going. The number of health care services so far over 36.9 thousand people and growing. It’s like walking into the worst town in your city, and then taking away normal health care services that we are accustomed to, paved roads, fresh water and a house that keeps out the weather all year round. We are use to seeing people with no shoes on their feet, have never been to the dentist in their lives and only home remedies as doctors of the house. We even brought a team of Army Veterinary folks with us who have seen over 9,149 to make sure your normal farm animals are going to survive.

So much I want to add with all of the pictures that we’ve captured, guess I need to go for a photo bucket account and see how well that works. Or maybe Flickr?

The biggest thing now is our half way point that we hit yesterday. People are getting restless to get back home. After seeing the same thing day in/day out it begins to get old fast. Not much to do unless you’re working on the beach or tracking who is going where and how. So basically if you’re a Seabee, Doctor, or some part of our flight crew. If the calendar is right today marks 61 days away from Norfolk now. With a dead line of being home around November 17th that gives us another two and half month stretch.

So what am I missing back home????  Birthdays.. Eli’s first steps, my Princess Phia’s first day of school. Lara’s Birthday.. So basically another whole year pretty much of missing everyone’s birthday again, and from the looks of things it’ll happen again next year too. Hard to plan stuff when I’m this far away. When all else fails though, I still have pictures of the kids being sent to me along with video’s of Eli walking from Lara  <3 xoxo.  =D  Hope all is well, and hope to hear from you soon.

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