Grandkids and Guatemala

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February 18, 2022
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- Day 1
- Friday, February 18, 2022 at 2:28 PM
- ☀️ 50 °F
- Altitude: 545 ft
- United States Tyler Pounds Field 32.351088, -95.4100232°21’4” N 95°24’36” W
Heading to Amanda
February 18, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 50 °F
We drove to Van so Sarah could drop us off at Tyler airport.

We’ll fly to DFW then to CMI.

I found that using AAmilage was cheaper from Tyler than from DFW. We’ll get to spend 2 days with the 2week old Amanda and all the other gkids!Read more
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- Day 2
- Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 10:13 AM
- ☀️ 16 °F
- Altitude: 725 ft
- United States Fisher 40.316906, -88.35912340°19’1” N 88°21’33” W
Good morning with grandkids
February 19, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 16 °F
We flew via DFW.
Ellen and Luke dropped off the RAV4 at the airport for us to drive home. We arrived around 9:30. its cold here.

We slept in basement with Annie. She woke up once!

Saturday morning I held Amanda all morning long!Read more
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- Day 2
- Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 1:33 PM
- ☀️ 19 °F
- Altitude: 725 ft
- United States Dewey Mennonite Church 40.320854, -88.28179240°19’15” N 88°16’54” W
David’s basketball game
February 19, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 19 °F
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- Day 2
- Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 8:23 PM
- 🌙 14 °F
- Altitude: 725 ft
- United States Fisher 40.31685, -88.35910840°19’1” N 88°21’33” W
Father-Daughter dance
February 19, 2022 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 14 °F
Glenn got to go to the local elementary school and be little Emily and Lucy’s date.

Emily got an early birthday present-beautiful brown and pink quilt. She loved it.
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- Day 4
- Monday, February 21, 2022
- ☁️ 64 °F
- Altitude: 377 ft
- United States Mitchell Lake 33.470417, -94.04745633°28’14” N 94°2’51” W
Trip to Guatemala changed
February 21, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 64 °F
Our trip got changed because our Covid test did not arrive on time. Still has not arrived.

So, we drove back to Dallas. Since we had the car from our “Amanda Birth”, we just headed on down the Interstate.

Our original plan was to fly through DFW to Guatemala and then after our 7 day visit in Guatemala we would fly back to CMI, visit and drive home.

But since we had the RAV4 we just drove on back to Texas!

Now for plan B!Read more
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- Day 5
- Tuesday, February 22, 2022
- ☁️ 45 °F
- Altitude: 545 ft
- United States Randall Park 32.80297, -96.75388132°48’11” N 96°45’14” W
An extra Day
February 22, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 45 °F
Because our Covid test didn’t arrive in time, we got to make the best of it,

We had brunch with Karen snd Thomas. Then over to see mom and dad!
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- Day 6
- Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 11:06 AM
- 🌧 27 °F
- Altitude: 591 ft
- United States Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport 32.898212, -97.04491432°53’54” N 97°2’42” W
Flight DFW GUA cancelled
February 23, 2022 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 27 °F
We stayed at a hotel near the airport that provided cheap parking and shuttle service.

After a relaxing lunch at DFW, we noticed the flight was delayed because the aircraft was arriving late into DFW.

Then we noticed the flight was cancelled. We checked about our 2 pieces of checked luggage. Can’t get them until after tomorrows flight.

All hotels are full. Weather is bad in Dallas. Or at least could be bad.

Glenn has gone to hotel to get the RAV 4 to come back and get me. In the meantime, I’ve been chilling at the lobby of Grand Hyatt.

We’ll stay with Janie tonight.Read more
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- Day 8
- Friday, February 25, 2022 at 11:46 AM
- ⛅ 32 °F
- Altitude: 620 ft
- United States Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport 32.896172, -97.04425832°53’46” N 97°2’39” W
Meltdown
February 25, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 32 °F
We stayed 2 nights at Janies house. We watched YouTube videos of the Holderness family, Jeopardy and the Amazing Race. We also played Azure and phase 10.

We’re heading back to Guatemala-hopefully today we’ll make the flight.

We enjoyed the chocolate meltdown dessert even though we have NOT had a meltdown yet With all of this 5 days of traveling, zoom calls, cancelled flights, icy roads, late Covid test, driving from Illinois to Texas, breakfast with Karen and Thomas and pure exhaustion, but no meltdown.

Just enjoying the journey.Read more
TravelerYou deal with it all with such grace❤️
2/25/22Reply
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- Day 8
- Friday, February 25, 2022 at 5:57 PM
- ⛅ 68 °F
- Altitude: 4,941 ft
- Guatemala Mariscal 14.600817, -90.54560814°36’3” N 90°32’44” W
We’ve arrived!
February 25, 2022 in Guatemala ⋅ ⛅ 68 °F
Had a smooth flight. I watched the movie “2 hearts”. It’s a tear jerker!

Now heading in a taxi to pick up Marievelia’s car to drive 3+ hours to Panajachel.

It’s Friday afternoon and we have traffic!
TravelerSuccess!
2/26/22Reply
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- Day 9
- Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 6:14 PM
- ⛅ 63 °F
- Altitude: 5,135 ft
- Guatemala Río Panajachel 14.737125, -91.15983614°44’14” N 91°9’35” W
Intermissions Conference
February 26, 2022 in Guatemala ⋅ ⛅ 63 °F
A gathering of North Americans (Canada &US) missionaries from all over Guatemala come for a weekend of relaxation, teaching and fun.

Views from our hotel room!
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- Day 10
- Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 6:03 AM
- 🌙 52 °F
- Altitude: 5,115 ft
- Guatemala Río Panajachel 14.736728, -91.16022514°44’12” N 91°9’37” W
Sunrise over Lake Atitlan
February 27, 2022 in Guatemala ⋅ 🌙 52 °F
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- Day 11
- Monday, February 28, 2022 at 7:29 AM
- ⛅ 57 °F
- Altitude: 5,013 ft
- Guatemala Antigua 14.557088, -90.73812114°33’26” N 90°44’17” W
Antigua Sunrise
February 28, 2022 in Guatemala ⋅ ⛅ 57 °F
Alarm went off at 4:15am
We drove 45 min to Antigua to take fotos of the beautiful sunrise!
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- Day 12
- Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 1:02 PM
- ⛅ 73 °F
- Altitude: 5,072 ft
- Guatemala San Cristóbal 14.609403, -90.58262614°36’34” N 90°34’57” W
Day in San Lucas
March 1, 2022 in Guatemala ⋅ ⛅ 73 °F
After breakfast and my 8:00am Azmera zoom call, glenn and I drove to San Lucas to have lunch with Patricia. (No photo)

Then we headed to Barcelo hotel for the night.

We had a 4:15 all Guatemala missionary zoom call. Afterwards we took the shuttle to GUA to get our Covid 19 test. Negative!

We celebrated at our favorite steak restaurant, Media Cancha.Read more
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- Day 13
- Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 6:40 AM
- ⛅ 55 °F
- Altitude: 4,954 ft
- Guatemala Parque Independencia 14.597142, -90.51980614°35’50” N 90°31’11” W
Last Day in Guatemala
March 2, 2022 in Guatemala ⋅ ⛅ 55 °F
Today, we checked out of the hotel in the early afternoon.

It was a breeze going they security. My 12oz bottle of water made it through with out getting confiscated!

Glenn and I sat in the Food Court and wrote down the stuff we need to do in the next 24 hours. We have 5 packages to drop off at the post office and mail for folks. I realized that we didn’t have some addresses, so we quickly spent the 3 hours sending emails and text messages getting everything lined up.

Glenn and I made a list of stuff we wanted to take to Tyler out of the bodega such as misc tools, RV stuff and our Stewart sign.

Tomorrow we have a walk through at 2pm and closing on the house at 3pmRead more
TravelerExciting! Closing on your house. Welcome Home ❤️
3/2/22Reply
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- Day 16
- Saturday, March 5, 2022 at 10:23 AM
- ☁️ 68 °F
- Altitude: 600 ft
- United States Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport 32.898747, -97.04312232°53’55” N 97°2’35” W
Heading to see grandkids again
March 5, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 68 °F
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- Day 17
- Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 7:54 PM
- ⛅ 41 °F
- Altitude: 725 ft
- United States Fisher 40.316866, -88.35910440°19’1” N 88°21’33” W
Being Grammie
March 6, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 41 °F
Sunday was a relaxing day. Annie and I took a nap. I made spegetti but I used salsa instead of spegetti sauce. It turned out ok.
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- Day 18
- Monday, March 7, 2022 at 8:56 PM
- ⛅ 32 °F
- Altitude: 725 ft
- United States Fisher 40.316867, -88.35913640°19’1” N 88°21’33” W
Mexican caserrole and Happy Meal
March 7, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 32 °F
I kept Emily and Annie this morning. Emily did her classwork and one of the assignments was to prepare the famous Grammie Mexican casserole. She did everything except browning the meat. We also played a little bit, then it was time to drive to Dewey and pick up Elizabeth from pre-k.

We then drove to Rantoul to the McDonalds and then I wanted to find a Wendy’s for the Frosty but this small town didn’t have a Wendy’s so we settled for ice cream at home.

Annie took a nice long nap (2:30-4:30) in her pack n play in my room. I stayed in the room working on emails and also making photo albums in my iPhone.

After dinner everyone finished watching the SpaceJam2 movie although I didn’t watch much of it as I was sending emails to Judy and Debbie Murphy who’s mom has Covid and not doing well.

I closed the night off by rocking 1 month old Amanda to sleep.

When I settled into my room, I noticed Annie had pooped and taken her pull-up off. Where’s glenn when I need him?Read more
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- Day 19
- Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 1:31 PM
- ⛅ 36 °F
- Altitude: 748 ft
- United States University of Illinois Willard Airport 40.036545, -88.26361840°2’12” N 88°15’49” W
Saying good bye: Patty at Cmi
March 8, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 36 °F
Playing with the girll
Amanda’s bath
Visit with Paty
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Trip end
March 18, 2022