Video of the day: Driving in Haiti

Here's one more video we took in Haiti.  As you'll see below, driving in Haiti was definitely an experience.  The roads were less than smooth (even the paved ones), their driving laws were not enforced, and people drove when and where they pleased.  I considered driving in Haiti a bit like a roller coaster.  Not only do you get the ups, downs, and shaking you'd expect on a roller coaster, but you never know what's around the next corner.  This video is a clip of a very easy intersection to drive through.  We went through one area while sight-seeing where we had to inch our way through the crowds of people while combating other cars.  On our way to the airport the last day we were at a four-way intersection and needed to cross four "lanes" of traffic to go straight while everyone else was trying to go in every other direction.  We got stuck in the middle and my life flashed before me a couple of times. I learned it was best to just take a deep breath and trust Samuel, our driver.  He asked me one day if his driving made me nervous and I had to explain that while I trusted him, I was very unsure of the other drivers on the road.  I knew he had control of the car, but I was not so sure how good the people around us could drive.  It was a lot of fun and a bit scary at times.  The back roads were always sure to impress with their large bumps, dips, and hills.  Here take a look at an intersection on a paved road:

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Did it make you nervous? I told you it was an adventure! And that was an easy intersection!  It's definitely an experience everyone should go through.  

Happy Monday!

Video of the day: New Years in Haiti

As you know from my previous blog posts, Cassie and I spent New Years watching the fireworks from Dorothy's roof.  She had warned us that it would sound like we were in the middle of a war zone, so we stayed up to see!  After playing countless children's board games in our room to keep ourselves awake, we finally went up to the roof.  The first few seconds of the video are looking out over the mountain from Dorothy's roof.  At midnight it all lit up at once with fireworks. It was amazing!  We basically got to see 100's of firework shows all at once.  The video doesn't quite do it justice, but it was incredible!  Then our neighbors started shooting off their fireworks.  It was really an amazing night and New Years!

This is where we were standing during this video.  The mountains directly ahead are the one's I referred to above and then to the far right is where the neighbors started shooting. (click on the picture for a larger view)

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Video of the day (from Haiti)

While Cassie and I were in Haiti, we learned very quickly that we could basically set our watches by the kids.  Every morning between 5:30-6:00am we would wake up to them screaming/crying.  It never failed, they were always right on time!  Thank goodness we brought earplugs with us because as soon as they started up, we'd roll over, pop the earplugs in and sleep for another 2 hours or so.  Here, have a listen to what we woke up to every morning.  Sorry it's so dark, we hadn't turned the generator on yet that morning so there was no light in the hallway.  Enjoy!

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Haha like I said, thank God for earplugs!!!! We love those kids though and miss them so much already.  I would be willing to wake up to that every morning!  Hope you have a wonderful Sunday!