Day 6: Ocean & Pizza Amore

Ocean & Pizza Amore 
After spending the week serving together as a team, we had the opportunity to drive an hour and a half up the coast to see another beautiful side of Haiti. As soon as we found chairs on the beach, we had Haitian people coming up to us from the ocean. One man was selling conch sells, another had a couple kayaks he wanted to rent to us, a couple boats had snorkeling equipment and a couple other men had bags with live lobster and crabs in them. Steve was the first to meet a jellyfish and was stung a few times. Scared us out of the water for about 10 minutes and then we decided to go in the boats to try snorkeling. Julie spotted a barracuda and we all saw some beautiful fish in the coral. The scenery was gorgeous with the mountains and palm trees around us. It was hard to imagine all the poverty that was nearby. When we came back, the men with the Lobster and crab and one of each that Julie bought for us to try all ready and cut up for us to eat. We ended up meeting a group of men from the Philippines that had a day off from their United Nations duty for the day. They were all so hospitable and offered to share the feast they had brought with them for the day. They had a chicken gizzard kabob, goat soup and chicken feet..Casey, Steve, Micki, Katie, Bekah and Abby were daring enough to try eating the feet! They also offered their dessert which we think was a fruit creme and topped with graham crackers. Before we left for the day, they invited us to their UN headquarters the next day to go to a church service.
For dinner we went to Pizza Amore at Apparent Project for dinner. Our cheese bread came out right away, but then we found out they ran out of cheese. We had to wait for an hour for them to return with cheese, but the kids made good use of the time by playing foosball, pool or playing with the kids that were there.