Arrival in El Salvador

It was an early morning arriving at the airport at 4:15 AM. Dave Endriss and Dru  McLuen were there to see us off.  We got luggage and 6 foot lockers of supplies checked in. Our flights went well. Arriving in San Salvador the pilot announced there were 20 wheelchairs needed for our flight. Luckily none of us needed those. When we got off the plane there was a line up of people in wheelchairs waiting to get in the elevator. 

The electricity went out in the airport numerous times while we were using restrooms and getting luggage but we finally rounded up all our belongings and made it through customs. 

Katherine met us and got us to our bus where Alfredo our driver helped load luggage through the windows. Interesting method, but it worked!  Then we were off to San Salvador and Pupusas for lunch. yum!  We shopped the Artisan Market and everyone loaded up on treasures to take home.

Katherine took us to the memorial wall in the park where there is a mural and long lists of names of people killed in the civil war. Katherine told us a history of El Salvador and we walked and looked at names and names and more names. Such a tragedy!

Tonight we are in a lovely guest house and walked to supper of soups, chicken, fish, shrimp and even iguana.  Thanks Justin for "the night of the iguana". 😉

Karen