Wed March 9 Sister Flora (Soeur Fleur) Orphanage and Dr. Lambert’s Mountainship dining

9 am big breakfast of turkey bacon, home fried potatoes and scrambled eggs shared with Federique, then the Sister Flora’s orphanage boat arrives to pick up the supplies we have for them so we head for the library/storehouse, we tell the eager helping hands to take all of the wheelchairs and walkers and crutches out to the boat, along 40 or so of the woven mats, plus 4 of the 5 gallon dry soup mix buckets (each one makes 100 meals) and a dozen or so boxes labeled for Sister Flora, plus many bags of clothes, linens, children’s toys etc. Then Arlen and I sort through the sewing machines separating them into hand cranked and electric only ones, sending the six electric ones to the orphanage where they have electric power.

We all load into the boat along with all of the wheelchairs, walkers porta potties, mats, boxes and sewing machines etc. and head out for the 5 mile trip to Madame Bernard, the capital town of the island where the orphanage is located. Arriving in Mme. Bernard, many eager hands are there to help us carry everything up the long steep, muddy and rocky path to the orphanage. I push one of the wheelchairs with a bag of linens on the seat along the flat and muddy road to the base of the hill, then Federique helped me pull it up the very steep rocky rutted and rough road up to the orphanage.