The young men who comprised the Trinidad youth were awesome. Not only mannerly and helpful, they were willing to try new things; and there was no shortage of new things to put their hand to. Our kids had a ball, and I think they did as well. Friendships were formed in a memorable trip for all.
While we had a wonderful time in Trinidad and Tobago, our trip took an extra turn by three days in Grenada (Brandon pointed out that I misspelled the country name. This is the West Indies, not Spain). We stayed at a local hotel and one of the church ladies prepared our meals. We started each day with fish. It was different, but tasty.
This is page two of our Grenada trip. We had trouble conveying the concept of dowel rods, so I agreed to bamboo about the diameter of a broom handle. Their broom handles must be pretty big. The were also a bit long, so Michael Sandassie cut the bamboo in half and the worked out well. The sound they made was awesome. Our teens did most of the teaching and the kids were awesome.
These are four two-page spreads using CTMH's Moon Doggie (x711B) papers and Level 2 Stickease (X711c) and Journey Journaling Spots (X1409). The tropical flavor was just the right backdrop for chronicaling our first Missions Trip (2005) to Trinidad and Tobago. I haven't done the journaling on the first three page sets. The first set, "This is the Life" shows where we stayed on our visit. We were actually in an apartment above the church in Vistabella. I also included a picture of the room we stayed in and a "guy" shot -- Pastor BuddyVaughn of Middletown (DE), my husband Dave, and Pastor Andy Sandassie, our host. I believe that was a shot taken just before we went into what we would call a backwoods area to hand out fliers inviting people to church. For some reason, the guys stayed in the car while we women walked the streets passing out invitations to come to a service.
Besides performing a monodrama titled The Bride, I also did some storytelling while in Trinidad and Tobago, which is the subject of this third two-page layout. We visited schools, an orphanage, and local churches. The secondary schools we visited were faith-based. The morning assemblies were always short, so there was no seating available for the students. They stood. The temperatures exceed 100 degree Farenheit while we were there . . . David didn't tell me that until we returned home. That's probably a good thing.
This last of the two-page spread is a hodgepodge of representative photos of our trip. That layout uses 15 pictures and is ideal for a photo-rich event. I haven't embellished it yet and probably won't get to that until Friday night. I know for sure that I'll be using that layout in our Saturday Travel Workshop. I'm hopeing we can get as many as six pages done for the day.By the way, those last two pages were made out of Moon Doggie scraps from the Level 2 kit. I can probably get two or four more layouts from what I have left. So how great is that?Now that I have 2005 scrapped, I need to address my two trips in 2006 and one in 2007. I hope to have it finished before we return to Trinidad in September.
