Haiti Bound

Its hard to remember everything that happened on Tuesday... First things first, we made it on the plane! I dont know how and I dont know why they changed their mind but God saw us through!
We met with our team at 7am showered, fed and ready to roll. We had been told that Aaron and Tanya had been working hard at putting together supplies to take with us on the plane. I cant believe how naive I was. I was envisioning a couple things of water, some diapers, wipes...you know, the usual. Wow was I wrong. They pulled up in a 20 foot U Haul packed full of supplies. We were told as a team that we had a 20 minute window to land in Port Au Prince and if we missed this window of opportunity the whole operation would be shot. With that in mind we got down to business. We had camera crews filming us bombing supplies off the U Haul. We had chains of people all cooperating in order to get everything unloaded and into the airport. It was pretty incredible to look at 12 thousand pounds of supplies and know that it would all be on our plane to take to Haiti.
We ran into a bit of a snag when we realized that every single item needed to be tagged by aiport personal before going through TSA. This meant that one person who worked for the airline had to put these stupid little tags on absolutely every case of water, package of diapers and box of supplies. At first things ran quite smoothly but the clock was ticking and not enough stuff was getting through. Our flight had been changed from the original 6am boarding to 1pm and still we were running out of time. I cant even explain how frustrating it is to see one person try and tag this much stuff. The printer couldnt keep up (printing the tags) and we were all standing around helpless.
In this time Aaron was constantly on the phone, organizing, rearranging, getting clearance to land from the Pentagon (not even kidding). In fact even Oprah called to try and get in on the action, okay so it wasnt Oprah herself but it was Oprahs people. We quickly learned that this was becoming much bigger than the 14 people that were about to board that plane.
With 2 federal agents, one police man and two security guards we felt we were ready for just about anything. We took off from Miami and were Haiti bound
After landing it was a whirlwind of activity. We had 3 trucks and a couple SUV's waiting to load our supplies and take us up to GLA. The airport looked like something straight out of a movie. There were helicopters and huge military cargo planes everywhere. We had to unload all of our supplies ourselves and it was quite a process. People everywhere, luggage everywhere, camera crews everywhere. I think only pictures can explain what we had seen.
Driving through Port Au Prince in the dark prevented us from seeing the real devastation of the earthquake. The streets were empty and quiet, a couple burning garbage fires and some rubble was all we could see. We arrived at GLA in our convoy and were welcomed with open arms. It felt like coming home!