Greet one another with a holy kiss - 2 Cor.13:12
DAY 1 - Saturday, July 14 - We are on the ground in Roatan ... We arrived in Coxen Hole at 1:22PM local time and what a welcome!!! The local airport was just a sea of yellow shirts as the teams that had arrived earlier from Toronto, Connecticut and Miami were there to welcome us to Roatan. After being expedited through immigration a lady asked me at the baggage carousel asked me what group we were with. When I told her Roatan Alive and that our events were at ESBIR, her face immediately lit up and she thanked us for coming and that she appreciated all the work that we had been doing over the years. We were all then shuttled by our faithful and skillful drivers, Edgar and Johan, for a delicious Roatan lunch at a local restaurant where the cook is a relation of Darla.... the running joke is that Darla is related to half the island, which I believe to be only half the truth. - DC

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