Day 2 - Preparing for the Team's Arrival

Now htat we are settled in, we have to get to work on preparing the installation building for the teams arrival. There are basically two tasks on the agenda for today. 1) Get the plywood painted and 2) purchase 100 Garafones (bottles) for the distribution of the water.

We arrived at the water building at 10:00am and discovered that the paint we bought the day before was bad, so we had to go to the store and replace it. So, we stopped on the way back and bought the garafones.

Pelayo's truck loaded with 100 garafones.

After stopping for barbeque tacos on the way back, we unloaded the bottles and got to work on painting. Adrian and I jokingly tell Don Ismael, one of the system operators, that painting the board is the only real work we will do the entire week. Mary will attest to the fact that I am no fan of manual labor and they are lucky to get this much out of me. However, that is the reason I signed up as team lead, to stand around and watch. :-)

Ismael and Febe chat while the board dries.

All of the garafones are stored in the building.

Adrian does "his side" of the board. I realize you don't see me working in any of these photos, but I swear I did!

After finishing our work for the day, we went to Salvador Urbina to drop Adrian off for a meeting of the Just Coffee members while Febe and I went to Tapachula to deliver our luggage and get checked into our hotel.

We then went to find Renee, our driver for the week, but he was MIA and we heard news that his truck was in the shop, so we found another friend of Pelayo's to drive us and yet another with a van big enought to get our team and luggage from the airport.

The team arrived at 10:30pm and we got them from the airport and then safely into their hotel rooms. Since Adrian and Febe are newlyweds, there is a lot of "PDA" going on and I have to keep telling them to "Get a room!" So, as you might guess, it was nice to actually get them into a room last night and go to bed myself!

Oh! Get a ROOM!