A few last thoughts

This will be the last slide show on Mexico to make the blogs. I want to include a few pictures from our last day on the trip. We left the seminary at 8:30 a.m. and were led to the border by Rick and Mercy. Then we made the two hour trek back to San Diego. We stayed at the same Howard Johnson Hotel we stayed at last year. It was close to the trolley line and only ten minutes from the airport.

The group checked into the hotel and then split up into three groups. George, Michelle, Carol W., Amanda and Merlynda went to Balboa Park and then up to La Jolla Beach to have dinner and watch the sunset. Carol C., Sharon, Nancy and Connie went to Old Town to go shopping and have dinner. Mark, Mark, June Lisa and I went back across the border to Tijuana to see if we could get some cheap souvenirs.

After everyone got back we compared notes around the hot tub and enjoyed the last night together. I don't think anyone wanted the trip to end. Only time will tell what effect this trip will have on the members of the group. We saw a different side of life. We saw poverty and neglect, love and happiness. We saw a number of people who have far less but managed to find a deeper contentment than we experience with our abundance. There are lessons to be learned. There are memories to be enjoyed. That process continues and I am sure you will read more about it in the coming months and years.

For now, enjoy this last entry from our Mission Trip to Mexico.

Cal