hospitality

thank you for hosting us with beds and food and carseats, sweaters and pj's, bikes and locks and diapers, phones and road maps, toys and conversations and Paypal accounts thank you mèsi

specifically we'd like to thank the following people for their generosity and hospitality and for loving us even when we didn't know how to work things, being patient when we said "but in Haiti..." again, wanted to bathe in a bucket in the backyard or opened our exploding suitcase in your house

Dan Van Geest (taxi extraordinaire)
Amaryah, Brett, Eily, deGroot-Woodman
Rachel, Scott, Matthew, Kaia VandenBerg-Hulme
GREAT Oma (Jane De Lange)
Henny and Jerry and Elek De Lange/Reitsma
Marlene & Greg, Jacob, Anna!!! , Caleb
Courtney, Joel, Grayson, and Isabel Van Geest
Ted and Marge Van Geest
Nate Van Geest
Annette, Emma, Brenna
Pasty, Ephraim, Esther Orkar Sagara
Mendelt, Zion, Jacoba, and Zekijah Vanderveen Hoekstra
Ceus Westerhof (thanks for the ride, not to mention waking us up!!!)
Jeff, Mel, and Ronin Van Geest
Trevor, Rebecca, Charlotte, and Audrey WestBam
Amy Lee and Haylee
Tanya, Paul, Saffire, and Krimzin Black
Art and Thea De Groot
there are more but i'm already getting teary eyed from ALL these