Interesting Nights

So did another village trip yesterday about 2 hours away from the house.  Everything went smooth and got back around 5pm.  Pastor Joseph called around 5:15pm and told Tim that one of the tires fell off of his truck, or that's how it got translated.  (this is the same tire he had trouble with on the way to the village) So Tim and I left the house around 5:30pm to go help him, along the way...got our spare tire fixed in case we got a flat (30 min. - time is now 6:00ish), picked up Pastor Jean-Mark (his wife was in the truck and has been there since around 3:30 (20 min. - now 6:30ish), picked up Joseph's mechanics (they had to do a bunch of stuff before we actually picked them up, long story...1 hr. - now 7:30ish), found Joseph at the big town outside the village [apparently he hitch-hiked his way about a 40 min. worth of driving] (1 hr. - now 8:30ish), got to the truck where we found Mama Jeanine, Perine, and Natalie; they had: started a fire on the side of the road/started to eat palm nuts (which was mine and Tim's dinner along with sugar cane that Mama Jeanine used a machette to peel for us - an experience all in itself) (30 min. - now 9:00ish), mechanics tried to fix the tire - don't think they knew what they were doing... (2 hrs. - now 11:30ish), start to drive with Tim's van in front but after getting involved in a discussion figure out that the truck is no longer behind us; so drive back and find that the tire has slanted now need to see if the i-don't-know-what-i'm-doing mechanics fix it or not which they do (45 mins. - 12:00am), get the tire up and running and Joseph drives in front; apparently goats sleep in the middle of the road so he has to swerve to miss one of them; bad idea because that causes another tire slant - more mechanic time (30 min. - 12:30am), finally decide to leave the truck on the side of the road where Joseph will sleep in it until tomorrow when the mechanics come back (20 min. - 1:00am).  Now have all the medicine containers, Pastor Jean-Mark, two mechanics, Mama Jeanine, Perine, and Natalie, Tim, and I in the van to go home.  Joseph has bug spray and a flashlight for the night.  Drop everyone off and finally get home around 2:00am.  Yes, that was after the workday, an 8 1/2 hour adventure.  No pictures either because we were in the middle of nowhere in the pitch black.  Yah!  Oh the experiences.  Haha.