First Post of Many

So, many of you know my two sisters and I were able to go to El Salvador for the temple dedication. I knew it would be a wonderful trip - a once in a life time. What I didn't count on was all the fun we would have. Three grown women visiting their parents sans children and husbands. Let's just say - it got a bit goofy!

Now, I have done my fair share of world travel - albeit a while ago. Both my sisters currently travel internationally, quite frequently, and we were going to visit our parents. Yet, once we got to the airport in San Salvador - we realized we were woefully unprepared and were actually lucky to make it out alive! But that goes with the pictures a little bit down in the post.

This is all going to be random because I don't have the patience to post all the pictures in the right order - so just go with it.

Here are Jen and I. We were all tucked in bed for the night when a blinding flash of light burned our retinas! Janie had snuck in to take a pic. So that of course woke us up and let the mayhem begin! After we got riled up - we decided to go jump in my parents' bed. They have a beautiful four poster bed with TONS of pillows. Yep - it was like we were little kids again. (See first pic in the post.)

Here we are in at the airport. We got through customs and came to this...an outdoor courtyard with a few authentic food choices and a pizza hut. There were a total of about 12 chairs that were highly prized and you really couldn't get a seat. We were there about 11:30am and my mom wasn't coming until 3pm. Once we were there we realized we didn't have their phone number, address, or a phone that worked internationally...yep three intelligent women were stranded at the airport!
Here is a nice guy who was going to try to call our parents but we only had a skype number for them...didn't work out so well. More waiting. We kept wondering about places to sit and to eat or shop - after all, this was an international airport. Come to find out, if we would have walked about 75 feet down the sidewalk we would have found the indoor waiting area full of shops and restaurants and even air conditioning. We had to laugh - what a great way to start our trip. (Oh - and at customs - we put our destination as the Mormon Temple - the guy thought we were crazy - he just wanted to know which city we were going to...)

Anyway, my parent's did end up coming at 2:30pm and luckily we found each other and we just laughed and laughed all the way to their house. My dad told the Bishop that we were riding with we were a little bit loco - he didn't disagree!

Thanks for all the great memories - Hainey and No-eye! Sure do love you. More to come. Love, Julia!