Tuesday, June 30, 2009

A few quick shots from Daniel´s phone



This is the big breakfast we had in the Buenos Aires airport. Cost about 13 US dollars for each set (3 sets in picture). Let´s just put on more weight before losing them!


Flight from Buenos Aires to Santa Cruz, after waiting for 10 hours. Turns out that we have to do an "emergency landing" in a small airport in Rosario due to a "technical problem", and we waited there for.. 5 hours.

All smiling after the long wait.. more wait ahead!



Just too happy thinking we were getting to Bolivia in 2 hrs.. too happy too soon...

Photos from Rosario Airport




Bonus Stay in Rosario

We were on our flight from Buenos Aires in Argentina to Santa Cruz in Bolivia. Half way through, we were told that we need to land on Rosario due to a technical problem. So here we are, in a what seems to be a local airport in Rosario, Argentina.

They have not figured out what that “technical problem” is yet, but told us that another plane will come by 4pm (we landed at 11:30am) to take us to Santa Cruz. We will most likely miss our flight at 7pm from Santa Cruz to Cochabama and will need to book another one.

Don't worry, it's going to work out fine. We will get to Cochabamba, find our guest house, have nice hot showers.. in theory. In practice, our patience and flexibility have grown. Must be part of God's plan to equip us for the days ahead! And thank God for the free wireless internet, and John's EeePC!


- daniel with everyone else in team in Rosaria airport, Argentina

p.s. No prize for commenting on this one, but you're still welcome to!

Monday, June 29, 2009

It's 22 hours since we arrived at Sydney airport to check in and after a few delays we have made it as far as Buenos Aires. It is 12 o'clock at night Argentine time & The airport, after some discussion, has let us stay in the transit lounge for our connecting flight out in 9 hours. So we are in a restaurant listening to updates about the Argentine elections, wide awake and just about ready to grab a row of seats each to try & get some sleep.

Hello to everyone reading & the first person to post a comment will receive a souvenir of our trip from Bolivia. We'll be on line for a few more hours.

Ciao

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Destination Bolivia

From Sydney--> Buenos Aires, Argentina
Buenos Aires--> Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz --> Cochabamba
where we will help out with the children's program at the Spiritual Life Conference
Cochabamba --> La Paz
3- day trek
La Paz --> Sucre
Meet the Tan's, and making visitations to various rural villages
Sucre --> Camargo
--> Potosi
--> Presto

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Items We Need To Bring

There are a lot of items we need to bring!

Items for Children Program in Missionary Conference
- Craft work for kids
- Bible study material for 4-8 year-olds
- Bible study material for 9-12 year-olds
- Bible study material for highschoolers
- Script for the musical

Medication
- Tamiflu
- Anti-bacterial hand gel
- Surgical masks
- Gloves
- Band-aids
- Altitude sickness tablets
- Other personal medication (if any)

Hygiene-related items
- Water purification tablets
-
Water filtering bottles- Other items
- Mosquito nets
- Insect repellant (tropical strength)

Other
- Warm clothing
- Sleeping bags
- Torch
- Thongs
- Spanish phrase book
- US Currencies

Hiking Equipment
- Hiking shoes
- Large backpack