Left for the airport at 5am. Joe & Shirley had to buy return tickets to able to board the plane. They bought theirs for May 16, which means Antoine and I have some free time before we leave on May 22. We left Fort Lauderdale at 8am, landed in Port au Prince at11:30am. I didn't get a window seat . :( Our luggage took forever, but some relatively official looking guy showed up to us. We got to skip customs entirely, and as we were making our way out of the airport, Antoine appeared. Our month and a half long separation was ended with a brief, discreet hug amid teeming masses of people. We are now the minority. We made our way to the van waiting in the parking lot, where someone (I think it was actually the guy who ended up being our driver, Johnny) kept asking us all for “one dollar, one dollar” and I heard him tell Shirley how beautiful she was (and she is, especially for being 68, but she didn't seem moved).
We were driven around in circles for a while until we reached a place where we picked up a generator. There don't seem to be any rules regarding Haitian roads, and Johnny was honking at least half the time, randomly. We were then driven to the Methodist guest house in Petionville, where we stayed for the night.
