~ BARBARA'S HEADED BACK TO HAITI TODAY (PRAY FOR HER) ~

well, i took her to the airport this morning as she's heading back to haiti today ~ she'll be arriving there this afternoon about 3:30pm ~ please be praying for her as she's in a LOT of pain as her hip's giving her so much trouble ~ they've scheduled her surgery for the end of may to have her hip replaced, but until then (& after) she'll certainly need our prayers as she's really hurting ~ i did learn something about her this week that i never knew ~ in haiti she's always drinking coke & LOVES it, so whenever she's heading our way we've coke & potato chips for her because we know how much she loves them ~ we went to dinner & the movies last night & at dinner she was asked by the server what she'd like to drink ~ she stated, "pepsi" & the server let her know that they have coke products & so she said, "well, that's fine, but i really wish you had pepsi" ~ after the server walked away i inquired about this coke/pepsi thing & she said that she really does like pepsi MUCH better in the states, but will drink coke if pepsi's not available ~ GRRRRR ~ she'd never said anything to us about this so we've been buying her cokes when she could've been drinking pepsi all this time! ~ well, i can assure you, i'll never happen again & she'll forever, from here on out, receive PEPSI COLA from the sheplers! ~ we'd a wonderful time with her even though her stay was short, but she did get a lot accomplished while here ~ she's hoping to start seeing things move swiftly in haiti with all the dossiers/adoptions that she's working on at this time ~ i'll be phoning her this evening to make sure she got in alright so i'll post when i hear something! ~