Getting Ready to Cross the Border

 After a very short night, we got up and started getting organized for our border crossing.

This year, because we flew, our logistics for everything we do is completely different. As always, we tried to create a really solid plan for getting everyone across the border, but then knew we might have to be really flexible.

Part of the flexibility is making sandwiches to take on the border crossing in case we ended up sitting on the bridge for a couple of hours.

We had a very carefully thought out plan — we had a group of about 16 walkers that got dropped on the US side to hang out in a park.

Then a group of 15 people drove across the border in the van all the way to Casa Hogar. The van crossed relatively easily and got to Casa Hogar by about 1 pm. The van then called the walkers and told them to "start walking across the bridge — the van then drove back to the Mexican side of the border, picked up the walkers, and delivered them safely to the orphanage.

A final small group drove to Sam's Club to pick up the big food order of all the food we will be preparing this week.

Some photos we took sitting outside Latin American Lutheran Mission while waiting for the van to drop the walkers of on the U.S. side of the border.

Brenda, Nancy, and Breckyn in the truck just before leaving for Sam's Club.