Saturday, March 23^rd and Sunday, March 24^th

Today we packed up and left the compound at 8:00.  We went to a little touristy town to shop for gifts and souvenirs.  On the bus ride there, we popped a tire so the whole caravan had to pull over and we all had to get off the bus so that they could change it!  Once arriving in the town we shopped a little and got puposas for lunch before heading to the airport.  It was sad saying goodbye to the brigades staff and our security guards.  Waiting in the airport seemed like forever.  I just wanted to click my heals three times saying “There’s no place like home” and teleport home.  Our flight was delayed, cancelled, rescheduled so many times, that I was worried I would not make it back.  We ended making it to Chicago after flying through Guatemaula instead of El Salvador.  I was happy to finally be back in the states.  Yay we made it!  Road block:  about twenty people didn’t have their luggage and of course I was one of them!  After filling out paper work we finally left Chicago, only to find out that it would be snowing our whole way home…talk about a warm welcome!  The bus was freezing, but I did manage to get a little bit of sleep.  We made it back to Des Moines around 9:15am!  Glad to be home and I can’t wait to show everyone pictures.  It was an awesome experience.  Thanks for all of the prayers while I was gone!