This morning Vero and Shannon made it home safe and sound. Still LOTS of road blocks everywhere, but Cequer went and got them on motorcycle. So that is one huge relief. We have gotten so many different stories of what is happening everywhere. Received one story that the roads on the airport side of town are all clear now. Then a missionary who lives over there said, no, they are not...maybe a motorcycle can get through but nothing larger than that. And this is daytime...give it a few hours and they will shut it up again. And we got another one that the president is sending his "army" up here with tanks and guns to set things straight. Haiti does not have an army. And another radio message that things will now stop and roadblocks will be cleared. Still nothing on that either.
So, we simply sit here and wait to see what will happen next. Tomorrow is another big holiday...where they block the roads for the celebration...so even if THESE roadblocks are cleared, the new ones will go up tonight for tomorrow. We are waiting to see what tomorrow and tomorrow evening will bring us.
We heard some shouting and hollering and whistling on the road here. Vero calmly walked out there and came back to say they were watching a soccer match. I think that is a good sign. We still are not leaving the compound. It is silly to take chances when tempers are still at fever pitch.
Don has cleaned his garage...(much needed)...plus fixed a broken pipe and some other minor things that kept getting left undone. So the time was not wasted. Abbie's been home from school all week...no one could make it there. THAT created some fun times here, trying to keep her busy. She really does pretty well on her own, but she was missing mommy and her friends at school, and just simply wasn't happy with the way things were. Now mommy's here and can take some of that off of me so I can get some work done. I have not been on email hardly at all in the last week. Too busy on the phone and running after Abbie.
Phone has calmed down some today, which is a blessing. It would be great to go back to normal one or two calls a day.
During the day we don't have the gun shots or explosions (of who knows what). So, it seems pretty quiet now. We really are praying it will continue to be calm and quiet and that things could get back to the normal chaos here.
God has given us a peace that no matter what happens we are in His hands and He has control of us. For this we are really, really thankful. Keep praying!!!
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