We dropped into bed this morning at 7:50 a.m. after 19 sleepless hours of travel home from Guatemala. But it was well worth it!

The convention was a huge success - 3200 youth leaders from 12 countries, 150 volunteers, and over 50 workshops. When it was all done, the organizing team had a celebration dinner where we read thousands of overwhelmingly positive evaluation forms.

Lots more happened in Guatemala. I'll write about that later... after a good nights sleep.

training in Mexico - Feb. 2001

youth leaders convention in Guatemala 2006

When he met us at the airport River was distracted. The main speaker, an internationally known recording artist, was supposed to arrive on the flight with us but the airline said that he hadn't boarded his flight in Madrid, Spain. River was holding out hope that he had gotten on at the last minute and it hadn't been registered in the system.