Realizations

As we drove from the airport to the hotel and back, and saw the poverty, it made me realize how blessed we are to have all that we do. The buildings are from 1500 and on and do not get maintained...they are just repainted bright colors. The cars that drive around are 1930-50s and those are the lucky people. Most people hitchhike or drive horse buggy things. The cows are skin and bone. But the people are so happy and friendly. It made me realize just how good we have it. And still sometimes we think we have it so rough. I feel so blessed to have the gospel in my life as well as to live in a free country and have all the technology that we do. The internet was non-existent and there was no cell service (which was actually fantastic! It was sad to come back to instant messaging, facebook etc).

And the propaganda! There were signs and messages from Fidel all over the place!